Dengue Fever and Aedes aegypti in indigenous Brazilians: seroprevalence, risk factors, knowledge and practices.

Objective: Dengue remains an important public health problem in Brazil. We estimated the associated factors of dengue seroprevalence among native Indians of the Tremembé ethnic and their knowledge about the aspects related to the presence of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes.

Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study and a prospective environmental study to monitor the trapping of mosquito eggs monthly were performed.