Epidemiological aspects of meningitis in the city of Porto Nacional (TO) from 2014 to 2018

• Autor(a) principal: Colman, Vinicius Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Reda, Nasser
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Scire Salutis
• Texto Completo: https://sustenere.inf.br/index.php/sciresalutis/article/view/CBPC2236-9600.2019.002.0006
• topic: Epidemiologia; Incidência; Meningite; Porto Nacional; Epidemiology; Incidence; Meningitis; National Port

Meningitis is a disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges, which can affect both the medullary and the cranial segments. It is classified as aseptic and bacterial meningitis. Among the aseptic classification, meningitis caused by fungi, viruses, and other less common causes. Already bacterial can be caused by several etiologies, including meningococcal, pneumococcal, tuberculous, among others. The most serious type of meningitis is bacterial due to its high morbidity and mortality. However, it is a disease with immunization. From this, we sought to investigate the epidemiological aspects of meningitis in all its forms in the city of Porto Nacional (TO), where it was identified that the aspects of the municipality are similar to the state and national aspects, with higher prevalence in men. mixed race and pediatric age, except for national data where it was more prevalent in adults. A worrying aspect identified in the municipality that differs from national and state data is the higher incidence of bacterial meningitis, more severe than other forms, and although there is no high incidence of both bacterial and other etiologies, there must be a higher incidence of bacterial meningitis. greater public health attention to the prevention of meningitis.