Profile of intestinal helminthiases in school aged children in the city of Abidjan
Menan, E.I.; Nebavi, N.G.; Adjetey, T.A.; Assavo, N.N.; Kiki-Barro, P.C.; Kone, M.
Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 90(1): 51-54
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085 PMID: 9264753 Document Number: 473409
Feces of 1001 school children aged from 4 to 15 years were examined as an epidemiological investigation. Direct analyses were completed by KATO and RITCHIE methods. The outcome was the global prevalence of intestinal helminthiasis in school age children in the Abidjan area is 36.5%. Male subjects are more infected than females. The most infected group is aged from 12 to 13 years and the less infected from 4 to 5 years. The frequent parasite species are Trichuris trichiura (23.4%), Ascaris lumbricoides (15.5%), Necator americanus (6.3%), Strongyloides stercoralis (1.4%). Hymenolepis nana (1.1%), Schistosoma mansoni (0.8%) and Enterobius vermicularis (0.2%).