Outbreak of Beriberi in a Prison in Côte D'Ivoire

Ahoua, Laurence; Etienne, William; Fermon, Florence; Godain, Graziella; Brown, Vincent; Kadjo, Kassy; Bouaffou, Kouamé; Legros, Dominique; Guérin, Philippe J.

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“…O perfil dos acometidos, isto é, mais homens e jovens, na faixa de 20 a 40 anos de idade, é similar ao verificado em outros estudos 4,6,7,8 . A justificativa é que o sexo masculino predomina nos confinamentos como prisões ou tripulações marinhas; some-se a isso o fato de que são os homens que mais frequentemente se envolvem em ocupações que requerem maior gasto energético e esforço físico.…”

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Perfil epidemiológico do beribéri notificado de 2006 a 2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil

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O objetivo do estudo foi descrever o perfil epidemiológico dos casos e óbitos de beribéri notificados de 2006-2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil. Informações foram obtidas de fichas de notificação da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde do Maranhão e utilizou-se o Índice Global de Moran para avaliar autocorrelação espacial. Foram notificados 1.207 casos e 40 óbitos. Regiões oeste e central mostraram forte presença de autocorrelação espacial da incidência. Ocorrência de casos e óbitos concentrou-se de maio a agosto, em homens jovens (20-40 anos). Hábito de consumir álcool e fumar esteve presente entre os óbitos; baixa renda e ocupação com atividade pesada, entre os casos. Os sintomas mais comuns foram diminuição da força, dormência e edema das pernas, dificuldade para caminhar e dor na panturrilha. O perfil dos acometidos e os sintomas, exceto edema de membros inferiores, são característicos de beribéri seco. É pertinente que estudos sobre seu ressurgimento no país sejam aprofundados.

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“…Como a maioria das doenças nutricionais, grande parte dos surtos de beribéri associa-se a condições de pobreza e fome, consumo de alimentação monótona baseada em arroz polido, elevado teor de carboidratos simples e também a alguns grupos de risco específicos, como aqueles engajados em atividade física pesada 2,4,7,23,25 .…”

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Perfil epidemiológico do beribéri notificado de 2006 a 2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil

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“…Ensuite, celle-ci est restée relativement stable pendant quatre mois successifs, avant de décroî-tre brutalement (Fig. 1 14 % [1]. Cette baisse des cas pourrait s'expliquer par le fait que, lors de la première épidémie, certaines mesures préven-tives ont dû être instaurées et ont donc amoindri la sévérité de l'épidémie de 2008.…”

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“…Les épidémies de béribéri ont été de tout temps l'apanage des milieux fermés où les populations vivent dans des conditions précaires et ont un accès limité à une bonne alimentation. C'est le cas des prisons ou des camps de réfugiés [1][2][3]7,8]. Les milieux ouverts, bien que rarement touchés, ne sont pas épargnés.…”

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Le béribéri, maladie nutritionnelle récurrente en milieu carcéral en Côte-d’Ivoire

Aké-Tano

Konan

Tetchi

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As a re-emerging disease, beriberi caused by a lack of thiamine in food threatens more and more prisons in developing countries. Indeed in 2008, a beriberi epidemic occurred in a detention house of Côte-d'Ivoire called Maca. The goal of our retrospective investigation was to describe this epidemic in order to improve prisoners' health. The study related to 131 subjects, 64% of cases affected (N = 205). The total rate of beriberi attack was estimated at 38.6‰. The mean age was 33; all patients were male and they were detained in "Batiment C" (70.2%), synonymous with heavy punishment. They spent about 28.1 month in Maca. The clinical symptoms were neurological signs (swarming: 41%) and cardiovascular signs (dyspnoea: 42%, thoracic pain: 35%). Half of the patients (51%) presented oedemas of the lower limbs. The rate of healing was about 97% when patients followed treatment. Providing good nutrition to the prisoners and the distribution of vitamin complements will avoid other epidemics.

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Thiamine Assays—Advances, Challenges, and Caveats

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Thiamine (vitamin B1) is essential to the health of all living organisms and deficiency has long been associated with diseases in animals such as fish, birds, alligators, and domesticated ruminant mammals. Thiamine is also implicated in several human diseases including Alzheimer's, diabetes, dementia, depression and, most notably, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome and Beriberi disease. Yet, highly sensitive and specific detection of thiamine remains an analytical challenge, as pM to nm levels of thiamine need to be detected in environmental and human samples, respectively, various phosphorylated variants need to be discriminated, and rapid on‐site detection would be highly desirable. Furthermore, appropriate sample preparation is mandatory, owing to the complexity of the relevant sample matrices including fish tissues, ocean water, and body fluids. This Review has two objectives. First, it provides a thorough overview of analytical techniques published for thiamine detection over the last 15 years. Second, it describes the principles of analytical approaches that are based on biorecognition and may open up new avenues for rapid and high‐throughput thiamine analysis. Most notably, periplasmic binding proteins, ribozymes, and aptamers are of particular interest, as they function as bioaffinity recognition elements that can fill an important assay technology gap, owing to the unavailability of thiamine‐specific commercial antibodies. Finally, the authors provide brief evaluations of key outcomes of the major assay concepts and suggest how innovative techniques could help develop sensitive and specific thiamine analytical test systems.

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Outbreak of Beriberi in a Prison in Côte D'Ivoire

Cited by 40 publications

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Perfil epidemiológico do beribéri notificado de 2006 a 2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil

Perfil epidemiológico do beribéri notificado de 2006 a 2008 no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil

Le béribéri, maladie nutritionnelle récurrente en milieu carcéral en Côte-d’Ivoire

Thiamine Assays—Advances, Challenges, and Caveats

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