Las parasitosis intestinales son un problema de salud en el Perú. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue determinar la prevalencia enteroparasitosis 66 pobladores dos localidades Yurimaguas: Caserío Grau (Localidad #1) y cuatro asentamientos humanos: Buena Vista, La Molina, Madeiros Natividad #2), Alto Amazonas, Loreto, estudio naturaleza observacional, analítico, descriptivo-transversal prospect...

There are few convincing estimates of the impact of child health and nutritional gains on educational outcomes in poor countries. This study examines the effect of an inexpensive health intervention a school-based deworming program on a range of primary education outcomes in rural western Kenya. The intervention consists of medical treatment for hookworm, roundworm, whipworm, and schistosomiasi...

A baseline study of soil-transmitted helminthiases was carried out in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, southern Thailand. The study sites were Wat Krou Chou Primary School and nearby villages in Sichon district, and Wat Thang Phoon Primary School and nearby villages in Chalerm Phrakiat District. Surveys of the schoolchildren's stools were conducted by the Kato-Katz technique. The results showed th...

Two commercially available diagnostic tools (Tro-Bio ELISA and ICT card test) were used to detect circulating filarial antigen of Wuchereria bancrofti infections among Indian expatriate workers in Saudi Arabia. Daytime serum samples collected from 302 individuals (210 men and 92 women) were tested. Night blood surveys for microfilaraemia were restricted to those individuals who became positive ...

Pyrantel has been demonstrated (Bumbalo et al., 1969; Desowitz et al., 1970; Hsieh, 1971) to be effective for treatment of Ascaris, hookworm and Enterobuis. Oxantel has been shown (Zaman and Sabapaty, 1975; Garcia, 1976; Lee et al., 1976; Rim et al., 1976) to be effective against Trichuriasis. A combined Oxantel-pyrantel salts has been shown (Rim et al., 1975; Lim, 1978; Dissanaike, 1978; Cabre...

The study examines the effect of moderate to high worm burdens of Trichuris trichiura infection on the cognitive functions of 159 school children (age 9-12 years) in Jamaica, using a double-blind placebo-controlled protocol. Results were evaluated by using a forward-stepwise multiple linear regression. Removal of worms led to a significant improvement in tests of auditory short-term memory (p l...

Programmes to control Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm infections have often been targeted at each infection separately, but the advent of benign and broad-spectrum anthelmintics suggests that combined control may be feasible. The extent to which the infections co-occur in communities will determine the need for, and potential benefits of, such a combined approach. This pa...

BACKGROUND Trichuriasis is a parasitic disease caused by the human whipworm, Trichuris trichiura. It affects millions worldwide, particularly in the tropics. This nematode parasite burrows into the colonic epithelium resulting in inflammation and morbidity, especially in children. Current treatment relies mainly on general anthelmintics such as mebendazole but resistance to these drugs is incre...