Role of pinworms in the transmission of acute intestinal infections in the preschool children's institutions
Zhuravlev, S.E.; Shul'man, E.S.; Filippova, E.G.; Parfenova, E.S.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 46(2): 137-141
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 927334 Document Number: 111045
Perianal scraping and bacteriological examinations of 3044 children in preschool institutions of Novosibirsk [USSR] revealed enterobiasis in 8.3% of the children and among their family members in 19.3% of women and 6.5% of men. Children with seatworm invasion developed acute enteric bacterial infections with the environmental-contact mode of spread twice as frequently, and Escherichia coli was cultured from their hands 3.7 times as frequently as in those without the invasion. Sanitation measures reduced the incidence of enterobiasis 6.9-fold and the incidence of enteric infections 21.2-fold. Treatment of patients with enterobiasis (without any improvement in the hygienic regimen) reduced the incidence of acute enteric infections from 9.3 to 0.7%, which confirmed the role of seatworms in their dissemination. Dehelminthization resulted in normalization of the microflora of the intestinal tract in patients with enterobiasis.