The intestinal parasite fauna in patients, returned from the tropics, from the Dresden district
Müller, W.A.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 30(7): 269-271
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 173101 Document Number: 92120
It is reported on the affection with intestinal parasites in 438 persons who returned from the tropics. In these test persons were also established only those species of parasites which were proved in the Dresden inhabitants. However, there were remarkable quantitative differences between the affection of the persons returning from the tropics and the Dresden inhabitants. Thus by laboratory examinations in Dresden in the persons returning from the tropics were established infections with Entamoeba histolytica (7.0%), with Dientamoeba fragilis (17.9%), with Lamblia intestinalis (9.0%) as well as with Trichuris trichiura (3.4%), where as the extensity of affection with the corresponding parasites is for the Dresden inhabitants 1.9%, 4.7%, 5.0%, and 1.6%. It is referred to the fact that all persons who returned from the tropics should parasitologically be examined for an infection with Entamoeba histolytica.