Prevalencia y correlación de antígeno y anticuerpo del helicobacter pylori en niños de 7-12 años de la Escuela Fiscal General Antonio Farfán, parroquia San Joaquín de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori) is a gram-negative bacterium, which is acquired in childhood before age 10. Its incidence is higher in developing countries (70-90%) than in developed countries (20-50%). Since the discovery of H. pylori (1983), it has been associated with chronic peptic ulcer, acute gastritis and even gastric cancer.

This study is of descriptive type, cross-sectional cohort whose objective was to determine the prevalence of fecal antigen H. pylori and H. pyloriIgG antibodies in children from ages 7 to 12 years old and disseminate the results. The valuation was 157 children with an average age of 9.9 years and methods used for this analysis wereimmunosorbent by chromatographic and immunoassay.

The prevalence of fecal antigen H. pylori was 75.8% and for anti- H. pyloriIgG antibody was 84.1%. In assessing fecal H. pylori antigen in females; 74 girls with positive results were found in the case of food consumption habits with protides and 114 children were found to have the infection and the presence of symptoms like nausea 40 positive cases and 64 cases for discomfort, having statistically significant relationship between gender, eating habits and the presence of symptoms (p <0.05). In the case of evaluating the anti- H. pyloriIgG antibody with age; statistically significant association (p <0.05) was found.