A survey on helminthic infections in two rural communities in Nepal

Autor:	Gopal P. Acharya, Tetsuro Ogaki, Sashi Sharma, Atsushi Saito, Terukazu Kawasaki, Masataka Koga, Shigeru Kobayashi, Shinjiro Hamano, Moriyasu Tsuji, Shoji Tokunaga, Kazue Ito, Masumi Kawasaki
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Veterinary medicine biology Intestinal parasite Liver fluke Logistic regression biology.organism_classification medicine.disease_cause parasitic diseases Epidemiology medicine Helminths Trichuris trichiura Ascaris lumbricoides Hookworm infection
Zdroj:	Japanese Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 27:511-515
ISSN:	2186-1811 0304-2146
Popis:	This study was carried out to elucidate the prevalence of intestinal helminthic infections in rural communities in Nepal. Of 231 inhabitants randomly sampled in Kotyang and Judigaun, 140 (60.6%) were found to be infected with some soil-transmitted helminths. The highest prevalence was observed in hookworm infection (52.8%), followed by Trichuris trichiura (18.6%) and Ascaris lumbricoides (11.3%) infections. Some inhabitants harboured Vampirolepis nana and liver fluke. The female group aged 60 years old and more showed significantly higher T. trichiura infection rate than the male group with the same age (p
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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