Background: Risk factors of intestinal helminthiasis include poor personal hygiene/care, and behavioural aberrations such as finger sucking, nail biting and pica which had been found to enhance intestinal ova transmission. Objectives: To determine risk factors of intestinal helminthiasis in children living in orphanages in Benin City, Nigeria. Subjects and Methods: Fresh stool samples from 140 ...

Gastrointestinal helminthiasis in developing countries contributes to malnutrition and anemia. Diagnosis and treatment of helminthiasis, especially with low worm load is an unmet public health need in such settings. The infection may sometimes become manifest when a second pathology leads to purgation of the gastrointestinal tract. Two cases of helminthiasis are presented in which the infection...

In this study, we aimed to establish the prevalence and risk factors relating to gastrointestinal helminthiasis, and to characterize the sanitary management practiced among sheep herds in the Sertão region of the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil, based on factors that condition the ways of controlling these parasites in these herds. The research was carried out between April and July 2012....

BACKGROUND Behavioral aberrations such as nail biting, finger sucking, and pica have been postulated as risk factors that enhance helminths ova transmission. These aberrations may present commonly in children with chronic neurological disorders and predispose them to heavy intensity of intestinal helminthiasis. This comparative cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence, intensity, a...

the prevalence of various intestinal helminthiasis have been determined by the examination of 8109 inhabitants of 20 villages located in the mountainous and coastal regions of the bandar abbas and minab areas in southern iran. a portion of people infected with each parasite were treated with the appropriate drug i and the worms expelled were collected, identified and counted. the results indica...

OBJECTIVE Describing soil-transmitted helminthiasis prevalence and trends in children aged less than 15 in the village of La Virgen, Cundinamarca. METHODS Three non-random surveys were carried out on school-children aged 0 to 15 years. Intestinal parasitism was determined In the three cross-sectional studies by direct examination of fecal samples and modified Ritchie-Frick concentration metho...

Helminthiasis is a disease caused by the infection of helminth parasite which responsible for loss livestock productivity. The cross-sectional study was conducted to determine prevalence rate, degree infection, and risk factors helminthiasis in limousine cattle at Balai Pembibitan Ternak Unggul dan Hijauan Pakan (BPTU-HPT) PadangMangatas. Fecal were collected examined qualitatively sedimentatio...

Eosinophilia is common in low-resource countries and usually implies helminthiasis. Since helminthiasis a cause of eosinophilia its diagnosis cumbersome, we hypothesized that broad-spectrum anthelmintic therapy may decrease the eosinophil count eventually cure helminthiasis, whether microbiologic established or not. We recruited patients with aged 5 years older who presented to Dhulikhel hospit...