Detection of schistosomiasis in an area directly affected by the São Francisco River large-scale water transposition project in the Northeast of Brazil

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:

The development of the São Francisco River Integration Project [Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco (PISF)] in the State of Ceará, Brazil, has resulted in environmental and socioeconomic changes with potential risks to public health. We aimed to determine the presence of Schistosoma mansoni infections in schoolchildren (aged 7-14 years) and workers from the construction site in an area under the direct influence of the PISF in the municipality of Brejo Santo-CE, to aid in the prevention and control of schistosomiasis.

METHODS:

We conducted a cross-sectional study using two S. mansoni-detection methods: detection of S. mansoni eggs by the Kato-Katz parasitological method in stool samples (assessed in triplicate for each sample) and S. mansoni circulating cathodic antigen by the point-of-care immunochromatographic rapid test (POC-CCA) in urine.

RESULTS

In general, the positivity rates for S. mansoni detection were 1.9% (2/106) among schoolchildren and 2.9% (4/138) among workers. No child had evidence of S. mansoni eggs in their stools; 1.9% tested positive by the POC-CCA method. Among workers, two (1.4%) tested positive by the Kato-Katz test and three (2.2%) by the POC-CCA test. If the POC-CCA test results that were scored as traces were considered negative, then the positivity rates dropped to 0.9% and 0.7% for schoolchildren and workers, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS:

The active transmission of schistosomiasis in a region covered by the PISF was recognized, reinforcing the necessity to consolidate surveillance and control actions, as well as structural sanitation measures to reverse the social determinants of the disease.

Keywords:
São Francisco River transposition; Diagnosis; Schistosomiasis; Schoolchildren; Workers; Epidemiology

INTRODUCTION

Schistosomiasis is a persistent public health problem, with a global burden of 3 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), affecting more than 240 million people. It is estimated that nearly one billion people around the world are at risk of contracting the disease^1-3.

In Brazil, an estimated 1.5 million people are infected, according to the National Prevalence Survey of Schistosomiasis and Geohelminthiases (2011-2014), with about 25 million individuals living in at-risk areas⁴. There are records of disease transmission in all regions of the country, affecting 18 states and the Federal District⁵. Mortality due to schistosomiasis ranked second among those from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the country during a 12-year period (2000-2011), with an annual average of over 700 deaths⁶.

In Ceará, the Schistosomiasis Control Program (Programa de Controle da Esquistossomose - PCE) has been developed since 1977, currently reaching 71 (38.5%) of 184 municipalities in the state. The disease is still routinely detected, mainly in municipalities of three regions of the State of Ceará: Cariri, Maciço do Baturité, and Serra da Ibiapaba. In the period from 2010 to 2015, a total of 171,927 direct parasitological examinations were conducted; 0.3% (488/171,927) cases of infection with Schistosoma mansoni were detected, distributed in 26.7% (19/71) of the assessed municipalities⁷.

Multiple factors determine the occurrence of schistosomiasis and complicate its effective control in the country. From this perspective, poverty and precarious sanitary conditions, as well as migration of people, combined with the broad geographic distribution of intermediate hosts, favor the persistence and establishment of new outbreaks in Brazil⁵. In addition to these, modifications such as the construction of dams and power plants are introduced by humans in ecosystems and biomes, to contribute to economic needs, such as increase in energy demand, water supply, and food production. These water projects can create environments that are ecologically favorable to the introduction and dispersion of S. mansoni by establishing new breeding sites for snails, which are the intermediate hosts of this parasite, either naturally inhabiting the region or introduced from other endemic regions^8,9.

The São Francisco River Integration Project [Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco (PISF)], is aimed at integrating the river with the Northeastern Hydrographic Basins, with the main objective of increasing water availability, and consequently, contributing to the socioeconomic development of the region. Further, this region has only 3% of the country's water availability and harbors 28% of the Brazilian population, and is constantly exposed to scarcity of rainfall and poor water distribution¹⁰.

This structuring project foresees the construction of more than 700km of canals, distributed into two main axes: the Northern Axis that will bring water to the backlands of Pernambuco, Ceará, Paraíba, and Rio Grande do Norte; and the Eastern Axis, which will benefit part of the arid and rural regions of the States of Pernambuco and Paraíba. The project includes the recovery of 23 reservoirs, construction of 27 new reservoirs, in addition to 9 pumping stations, 4 tunnels, and 14 aqueducts. It is estimated that water security will be guaranteed to about 12 million inhabitants, in more than 390 cities, by 2025^11,12.

Schistosoma mansoni infection has been reported along the São Francisco River, introducing high rates of infection and mortality, mainly in the States of Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Sergipe^13,14. In addition, there are intermediate-host populations of schistosomiasis in all the states that constitute the region, with Biomphalaria glabrata and Biomphalaria straminea being mainly responsible for the transmission.

The present study starts from the intricate interactions between health, environment, and development, in the transmission-dynamics of schistosomiasis in areas under the influence of the São Francisco River water transposition. The objective of this study was to determine the presence of S. mansoni in schoolchildren, as well as in construction-site workers from a municipality belonging to the area under the direct influence of the PISF in the State of Ceará, using parasitological and immunochromatographic diagnostic methodologies. It reinforces the relevance of planning and carrying out specific actions due to changes that may directly or indirectly affect the environment and the population’s quality of life.

METHODS

Study area and population

A study was carried out in the municipality of Brejo Santo (Latitude: 7º 29 '36 ", Longitude: 38º 59' 07"), located in the Southern Meso-region of the Ceará, located at 502km from the City of Fortaleza (capital), with an area of 661.96km² (Figure 1). The municipality has a resident population of 45,193 inhabitants as estimated in 2010, with a population density of over 68 inhabitants per square kilometer¹⁵.

FIGURE 1:
Water transposition project circuit of the São Francisco River, with emphasis on the State of Ceará and the Brejo Santo municipality. Adapted: Secretariat of Water Resources of the State of Ceará.

Of the four municipalities in the state where PISF construction sites are installed, Brejo Santo is the municipality with the largest gross domestic product (BRL 11,260.12 in 2014)¹⁶. Its economy is based mainly on construction industry and commerce. These characteristics make this area attractive for labor absorption. This situation has been a conditioning factor for the migratory flow of workers and, in recent years, Brejo Santo has absorbed the labor force of several municipalities of Ceará and other states. The Municipal Human Development Index for 2010 was 0.647; however, 59.7% of the households had adequate sanitary sewer facilities in that year¹⁷.

Schoolchildren

According to the 2010 Demographic Census on education, the number of children, aged 7-14 years, in Brejo Santo was 4,097 students, distributed across 37 municipal schools in urban and rural areas¹⁵. The overall prevalence of the disease in the State of Ceará was 5% (extrapolated value), with a margin of error of 5% and a 95% confidence level, which gave rise to an initial estimated minimum sample of 72 students.

In order to select the schools, we used the Environmental Impact Report that defined a directly affected area as a 5km-wide strip on each side of the structures to be built in the PISF¹⁸. Thus, only one rural school in operation was identified in the study area, as the others had been destroyed by the transposition works. For better representation of schoolchildren, it was decided to additionally select a school in the urban zone. Thus, of the 149 eligible students, 128 agreed to participate in the study; their legal guardians signed the free and informed consent form and filled out a questionnaire with socioeconomic information. Of the 128 students, 106 (2.6% of the total students in the city) effectively participated in the study, delivering urine and stool samples in adequate amounts, and of the required quality, for the examinations.

Workers from the construction site

Of the 500 workers allocated at the Brejo Santo site in the study period, 138 (27.6%) were included after signing the consent form and delivering urine and stool samples in adequate amounts, and of the required quality, for the examinations. All this process was carried out with the participation of the Ceará State Public Health Secretariat, Brejo Santo Municipal Public Health Secretariat, a company involved in the PISF and the Federal University of Ceará.

Collection and processing of biological samples in the field

Participants received two plastic collectors, with instructions to collect stool and urine samples, and were asked to return the plastic collectors with the samples on the next day.

Three slides were prepared with each stool sample using the Kato-Katz method from the Helm-Test kit (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, RJ, Brazil)¹⁹. A 5mL-aliquot of the urine sample was stored in adequately identified cryotubes for further analysis using the point-of-care circulating cathode antigen (POC-CCA) method. The aliquots were preserved at -20°C until they were transported to Fortaleza, to the Laboratory of Parasitology and Mollusk Biology located at the Federal University of Ceará, where they were stored at -80°C.

Laboratory procedures

For S. mansoni diagnosis, stool samples were examined for eggs with Kato-Katz stool smears prepared in triplicate. Infection intensity was calculated by determining the mean number of S. mansoni eggs found on the three slides and obtain number of eggs per gram (EPG) of stool (multiplying by 24).

The POC-CCA (Rapid Medical Diagnostics, Pretoria, South Africa) was performed using an experimental lot (a version prior to the currently marketed test), in which the buffer was withdrawn and 2 drops of urine were used. The test was performed at 24°C following the manufacturer's instructions. Briefly, two drops of the urine sample were transferred to the circular well of the test device and after 20 minutes the reading was performed. The valid tests (control-band visualized) were classified as positive, traces (weak test-band), or negative. Invalid tests (control-band undetectable) were repeated using the same urine sample.

Statistical analysis

Data were entered in Excel (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA) and analyzed using GraphPad Prism version 5.0 (GraphPad, San Diego, CA). The level of agreement between different diagnostic techniques was determined by the Kappa coefficient (κ) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for each of the different approaches. According to Landis e Koch²⁰, agreement was considered poor when κ was ≤ 0.20, weak when 0.21-0.40, moderate when 0.41-0.60, good when 0.61-0.80, and excellent when ≥ 0.81.

Ethical considerations

The study protocol was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Ceará (COMEPE nº 254/11 - Official nº 14/16). All participants (schoolchildren and workers) and parents/legal guardians were informed of their rights under the Resolution 466/12 of the National Health Council and received the necessary explanations about the study.

RESULTS

Schoolchildren

Of the 106 schoolchildren, 54.7% were females, 60.4% were from the municipality of Brejo Santo, and 69.8% had a monthly family income lower than 1 minimum-wage- [reference value: BRL 788.00 (USD 269.52) in 2015]²¹. Among the schoolchildren analyzed, none of the stool samples showed the presence of S. mansoni eggs. Using the POC-CCA test for the detection of S. mansoni antigen, one (0.9%) child tested positive, one (0.9%) showed trace amounts of the antigen, and the remaining 104 (98.1%) were negative. Of the two positive cases, one came from the municipality of Brejo Santo (autochthonous), and the other one from the municipality of Santa Maria da Boa Vista, Pernambuco.

Workers from the construction site

All 138 workers were males, with a mean age of 40 years (range: 24-68 years). Using the Kato-Katz method, two (1.4%) workers were tested positive; of the two, one worker (individual A) had the three positive slides (L1, L2, and L3), and in the other (individual B), only L3 was positive. The mean number of eggs was 5.33 for individual A (EPG = 128), indicating moderate parasite burden; and 0.3 for individual B (EPG = 8), suggesting a low parasitic burden. Of the urine samples tested with POC-CCA, one (0.7%) worker tested was positive, two (1.5%) were scored as trace, and the remaining 135 (97.8%) were negative. Overall, a total of four workers were tested positive either by the Kato-Katz and/or POC-CCA methods, resulting in a positivity rate of 2.9% (Figure 2).

FIGURE 2:
Positivity for detection of Schistosomiasis mansoni in workers from the construction site of the São Francisco River integration project in the Brejo Santo, Ceará municipality, according to one-, two- and three-slide Kato-Katz analysis and the POC-CCA test. POC-CCA: point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen; t−: trace-negative; t+: trace-positive.

The agreement between the parasitological technique and the POC-CCA test was weak, (κ = 0.39; 95% CI = 0-0.93), when the trace score was considered as positive. On the other hand, agreement was good, (κ = 0.66; 95% CI = 0.22-1.00), when the trace score was considered negative.

Further, the agreement between the diagnostic approaches, and combination of Kato-Katz (3 slides) and POC-CCA (t+), is shown in Table 1. There were better levels of agreement between the diagnostic methods when Kato-Katz triplicates (κ = 0.66; 95% CI = 0.22-1.00) and POC-CCA (t+) (κ = 0.85; 95% CI = 0.57-1.00) were used.

TABLE 1:
Comparison between the Kato-Katz and POC-CCA methods in the detection of Schistosoma mansoni in samples obtained from workers at the construction site of PISF in Brejo Santo State of Ceará.

	Kato-Katz (3 slides) + POC-CCA (t+)
	positive	negative	total	Kappa	95% CI
Kato Katz positive (1 slide)	1	0	1	0.39	0 - 0.93
Kato Katz negative	3	134	137
Kato Katz positive (2 slides)	1	0	1	0.39	0 - 0.93
Kato Katz negative	3	134	137
Kato Katz positive (3 slides)	2	0	2	0.66	0.22 - 1.00
Kato Katz negative	2	134	136
POC-CCA (t-)	1	0	1	0.39	0 - 0.93
POC-CCA negative	3	134	137
POC-CCA (t+)	3	0	3	0.85	0.57 - 1.00
POC-CCA negative	1	134	135

• POC-CCA: Point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen; PISF: Programa de Integração do rio São Francisco; t−: trace-negative; t+: trace-positive; CI: confidence interval.

DISCUSSION

The implementation of large ventures, such as PISF, invariably entails important environmental, economic, and sociocultural changes, interfering with the daily life of the populations and modifying their livelihoods, especially in relation to health conditions and quality of life. Thus, while the economic and social benefits that will be provided by the PISF are unquestionable, this large water-intervention project may also generate enormous environmental impacts that may have repercussions on the development and spread of diseases²². In addition, migratory movements of people generated by this project might not only contribute the spread of diseases in the migrants' areas-of-origin, but also to the increase of existing diseases in the recipient areas^23-25. In this study, we report the presence of S. mansoni infection among schoolchildren (aged 7-14 years) and workers, at the construction site of PISF during the pre-transposition period, in the municipality of Brejo Santo in the State of Ceará. This is the first study integrating the analysis of S. mansoni infection in a population of schoolchildren and workers at the PISF construction site to examine the active transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis in the region.

In Brazil, currently, the evaluation of the impact of water projects in relation to schistosomiasis has been limited to studies on the introduction of intermediate hosts^8,24,26. Studies that demonstrate the presence of S. mansoni infections in resident and floating populations are scarce, especially in the construction phase of these projects. Of these, one study was carried out in the region of Rio Itabapoana, on the border of the States of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, where 13 workers were identified as coming from the endemic area, infected by S. mansoni, during the pre-admission screening for the construction of the Rosal Hydroelectric Plant²⁷. Likewise, a study conducted by Favre and collaborators¹³ between April 2011 and June 2012 in 4,770 schoolchildren in municipalities of the four states covered by the PISF, identified six children (0.13%) that were positive by the Kato-Katz method (using duplicate smears from single stool samples): one in Terra Nova-PE, three in Sousa-PB, and two in Jucurutu-RN. These findings corroborate those of the present study; despite the low test-positivity rates found in these municipalities, the results indicate the presence of S. mansoni infections in this population, which in turn could serve as a sentinel population to monitor the progress of the control programs²⁸.

In the past decades, PCE has been based mainly on active case search by means of coproscopic diagnosis, population-based treatment programs in endemic areas, and surveillance and control of the intermediate hosts of S. mansoni (snails of the genus Biomphalaria). As a consequence of control actions and the relative improvement in general living conditions in endemic areas, the morbimortality burden of schistosomiasis has reduced, even though complete elimination of the disease has not been achieved⁵. For a long time, schistosomiasis was considered a rural endemic disease. However, the disease has been increasing with expansion in urbanization. This increase in prevalence is due to migration of people, in addition to population growth to live in areas without basic sanitation, where there are natural water-courses that are natural breeding sites of the planorbid snails involved in the disease transmission cycle^29,30.

The findings of the present study reinforces the notion that increase in the number of dams on a global scale has allowed the increase in the prevalence of schistosomiasis, as observed in the construction of the Aswan dam in Egypt^31,32, Three Gorges Dam in China^33,34, and the Kossou Dam in Cote d'Ivoire³⁵. These observations demonstrate the importance of diagnosis in the phases prior to the project operation, in order to allow an early identification and treatment of positive cases, and subsequent prevention and monitoring of the onset of new outbreaks³⁶.

Further, it is worth mentioning that the PISF construction sites have reached approximately 10,000 hired-professionals in the involved states³⁷. The present study considers only the reality of one of the PISF construction sites in Ceará, probably underestimating the real extent of schistosomiasis in this population. There was an increase in the positivity rate of S. mansoni-detection, among workers using the Kato-Katz method, with the growth in the number of slides read per individual, corroborating findings from other reports that rise in the number of assessed slides results in an increase in the positivity rate and a consequent increase in the prevalence of S. mansoni³⁸. In fact, the reading of only one or two slides, as routinely performed in schistosomiasis control programs³⁹, would have detected only one positive individual in our study. As opposed to the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation of assessing Kato-Katz smears of a single stool specimen in duplicate, our group sought to standardize the use of three smears per single stool-sample in order to improve the sensitivity of the method in this and other studies conducted by us³⁸. Another alternative to improve the sensitivity of this method is to prepare and assess multiple smears of different samples from the same person; however, in epidemiological studies, repeated exams are economically unfeasible^40,41.

The tests for the detection of circulating antigens of have shown satisfactory results for the timely diagnosis, fering a promising complementary strategy to the traditional parasitological examination^42,43. In this study, the positivity rate determined by the POC-CCA test was higher than that determined by the Kato-Katz technique, even with three slides. Among students, the rate increased from 0% by the Kato-Katz method to 1.9% by the POC-CCA test. Likewise, among workers at the construction site, the rate of detection increased from 1.4% to 2.2% when the trace scores were considered positive. The concordance between the immunochromatographic and the parasitological technique was better when the trace score was considered as a negative result, as described elsewhere²⁸.

The POC-CCA has some additional advantages over the traditional parasitological technique: the use urine as a biological sample, allows greater assent to the diagnostic procedure by patients who need to undergo the evaluation, as it is less embarrassing to them; besides being easy to perform and sensitive, it is applicable to epidemiological surveys of large populations. Recently, a study of a Brazilian population with low parasite burden in an endemic area showed that urine samples presenting traces of S. mansoni antigen were found in individuals with or without S. mansoni eggs in their feces. After concentration of urine sample ten times by lyophilization, the parasitological positive samples that were scored as trace by the previous POA-CCA test now became positive, but remained as trace in parasitological negative cases⁴⁴. Thus, the interpretation of POC-CCA test results requires additional studies, since the distinction between positive- and trace-readings is subjective and requires standardization of the thresholds to be used for the visual interpretation of results. In our study, despite the differences between the two methodologies, the combination of the two proved to be an effective diagnostic strategy to obtain a better estimate of the S. mansoni-infection rate in this area that has historically exhibited low endemicity.

It is noteworthy that WHO has outlined a comprehensive plan to integrate access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services, with four other public-health interventions to accelerate overall progress in NTD control by 2020, in which schistosomiasis is one of the priorities⁴⁵. Together with the Sustainable Development Objectives (ODS), strategic spaces are created in global and national agendas for the development of integrated control actions⁴⁶.

Despite the low positivity rate found in the study area, the transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis persists in this region, and may be further influenced by the arrival of the waters of the São Francisco River. Investments are required for surveillance actions, especially with the use of more sensitive and adequate techniques, as well as systematic studies on the impact of the largest water-project under construction in Brazil, throughout the area of its influence, before, during, and after its construction.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the Central Laboratory of Public Health of Ceará State, the Health Secretariat of Ceará State, the Brejo Santo municipality and Serveng Group for the technical and logistic support. We also would like to acknowledge Neels van Rooyen from Rapid Medical Diagnostics and Santiago Nichollas from PAHO/WHO for the donation of POC-CCA kits.

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• Financial support: Health Unic System Research Program (Programa Pesquisa para o Sistema Único de Saúde - PPSUS) - Call 03/2012.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  Sep-Oct 2017

History

• Received
  28 July 2017
• Accepted
  05 Oct 2017