Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
| Autor: | Sandy Cairncross, L.R.S. Moraes, Jacira Azevedo Cancio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Hookworm Adolescent Trichuris Sanitation media_common.quotation_subject Helminthiasis Environmental protection Hygiene Poverty Areas Environmental health Sewerage Prevalence medicine Humans Intestinal Diseases Parasitic Drainage Child Nematode Infections Children media_common biology Ascaris Drainage Sanitary Urban Health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Confounding Factors Epidemiologic General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Infectious Diseases Geography Risk factors Nematode infection Child Preschool Female Parasitology Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da UFBA Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) instacron:UFBA |
| ISSN: | 0035-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)00043-9 |
| Popis: | Texto completo:acesso restrito. p. 197-204 Submitted by JURANDI DE SOUZA SILVA (jssufba@hotmail.com) on 2012-12-20T18:01:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 1-s2.0-S0035920303000439-main.pdf: 104766 bytes, checksum: 0c953b8650df2028d5d2c1ca117316a6 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-12-20T18:01:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1-s2.0-S0035920303000439-main.pdf: 104766 bytes, checksum: 0c953b8650df2028d5d2c1ca117316a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 This cross-sectional study was conducted in 1989 among children aged between 5 and 14 years old living in nine poor urban areas of the city of Salvador(pop. 2.44 million), capital of Bahia State, in Northeast Brazil. Three of these areas had benefited from both drainage and sewerage, 3 from improved drainage only, and 3 from neither. The children studied thus belonged to 3 exposure groups regarding their level of sanitation infrastructure. An extensive questionnaire was applied to collect information on each child and on the conditions of the household, and stool examinations of the children 5—14 years old were performed to measure nematode infection. Comparison of the sewerage group with the drainage-only group and the latter with the control (no sewerage or drainage) group showed that, when the level of community sanitation was better, the prevalence of infection among children was less, but risk factors identified for infection were more numerous and more significant. Intensity of infection with Trichuris, but not with Ascaris or hookworm, was also less. The results suggest that sewerage and drainage can have a significant effect on intestinal nematode infections, by reducing transmission occurring in the public domain. |
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