A survey of three Costa Rican communities for intestinal parasites
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Formato: | artículo original |
Estado: | Versión publicada |
Fecha de Publicación: | 1965 |
Descripción: | Single stool specimens were collected from 848 individuals from three rural communities of Paracito, El Naranjo and Palmira, Costa Rica. Examination by the F. E. sedimentation technique revealed 7 species of helminths and 11 species of protozoa. Over 95% of the 848 persons examined were parasitized, 83.5% with worms and 86% with protozoa. Whipworm, T. trichiufa, A. lumbricoides and hookworms were the most common worms encountered. Entamoeba histolytica occurred in about 40% of the people while Giardia lamblia was found in 21.7%. Dientamoeba fragilis was not encountered due to the method of examining the stools. |
País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/28770 |
Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/28770 |