Intestinal parasitic infections in the residents of an emigration camp in Tijuana, Mexico.
10.3347/kjp.1995.33.1.65
- Author:
Sun HUH
;
Curie AHN
;
Jong Yil CHAI
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Adult;
Aged;
Animals;
Child;
Child, Preschool;
Concentration Camps;
*Emigration and Immigration;
Eukaryota/isolation & purification;
Feces/parasitology;
Female;
Helminths/isolation & purification;
Humans;
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/*epidemiology/parasitology;
Male;
Mexico/epidemiology;
Middle Aged
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology
1995;33(1):65-67
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
We examined stool specimens of the residents in the emigration camp in Tijuana, Mexico for helminth eggs or protozoan cysts with formalin-ethyl acetate concentration method in February and July 1992. Out of 92 examined samples, number of positive was 49 (53.3%). While number of cumulative positive was 66 (71.7%). Cysts of Entamoeba coli (29.3%) Giardia lamblia (9.8%), Entamoeba histolytica (7.6%), and eggs of Taenia spp. (6.5) were most frequently observed. Filtered water supply and chemotherapy were required in this camp.
