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Vol. 46. Núm. S4.
HEMO 2024
Páginas S901 (outubro 2024)
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HEMO 2024
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SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE SYPHILIS AMONG BRAZILIAN BLOOD DONORS
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NA Bragaa, S Mateosa,b, V Avelino-Silvaa,c,d, D Wardene, M Ribeirof, L Amorimg, P Loureiroh, N Fraijii, EC Sabinoa,b,j, B Custerc,k
a Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
b Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS), São Caetano do Sul, SP, Brazil
c Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, United States
d Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, United States
e Westat, Rockville, United States
f Fundação Hemominas (FH), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
g Fundação HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
h Fundação HEMOPE, Recife, PE, Brazil
i Fundação Hospitalar de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Amazonas (HEMOAM), Manaus, AM, Brazil
j Fundação Pro-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
k Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, United States
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Background

A concerning increase in syphilis has been observed worldwide. Traditional surveillance is limited by the scarce routine testing of asymptomatic infections. Blood donation screening is an opportunity to monitor resolved and active syphilis infections, providing public health insights into transmission.

Aims

To define syphilis prevalence, incidence and factors associated with active infection among blood donors in five Brazilian blood centers.

Material and methods

Donations from Jan. 2020 through Feb. 2022 were screened with treponemal or nontreponemal tests according to the local routine assessment at each blood center, followed by a confirmatory step with an alternate Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and rapid plasma reagin (RPR) testing. Samples with positive or indeterminate results in the alternate ELISA were categorized as active (if RPR reactive) or resolved syphilis (nonreactive RPR). Active cases were further categorized according to RPR titers (< 1:8 or ≥ 1:8). We report the prevalence of syphilis in first-time donations (FTD) and repeat donations (RD), incidence in RD, and use regression models to assess factors associated with active syphilis.

Results

Of 862,146 donations, 10,771 (1.3%) were reactive or indeterminate on screening; 7,541 available samples underwent additional testing. Of those, 5,876 (77.9%) tested positive on the alternate ELISA; 907 (12.0%) were resolved infections, 2,980 (39.5%) were active syphilis with RPR < 1:8, and 1,989 (26.4%) were active syphilis with RPR ≥ 1:8. Overall syphilis prevalence (including resolved and active cases) was 2.5% in FTD and 0.6% in RD. The prevalence of active syphilis was 1211 and 238 per 105 donations among FTD and RD, respectively. Among FTD, the prevalence rates of active syphilis with high and low RPR titers were 466 and 745/105 donations; these rates were 4.4 and 5.6 times higher than those observed in RD. Subgroups with the highest prevalence of active syphilis were black donors (946/105 donations), donors with ≤primary education (788/105 donations) and replacement donors (822/105 donations). In the multivariable model, age, gender, race, education, donor type, and type of donation were significantly associated with active syphilis. The incidence of syphilis in RD was 90/105 person-years, with age (25-34 and ≥ 55 relative to ≤ 24 years), male gender, Black and Mixed race (relative to White), lower education, and replacement donation significantly associated with incident syphilis in RD.

Discussion

We observed that both the prevalence and incidence of active syphilis are associated with male sex, black and mixed race, lower schooling, and replacement donation; compared to donors ≤ 24 years old, older donors had higher prevalence of active syphilis, whereas those aged 25-34 years old had higher incidence of syphilis.

Conclusion

The prevalence of syphilis was below 3% among FTD and below 1% among RD including resolved and active cases. We found wide variation according to demographic characteristics, with age, gender, race, education, donor type, and type of donation associated with higher prevalence of active syphilis in the adjusted models. The results indicate sociodemographic subgroups that can be targeted in efforts to promote sexual health education and surveillance, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections.

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