Enterobiasis in school children in the vicinity of Iloilo City, Republic of the Philippines.
- Author:
SENGBUSCH HG
- Keywords:
Enterobiasis, Pinworms, Socioeconomic Stratification
- MeSH:
Child
- From:
Journal of the Philippine Medical Association
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- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
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Abstract:
A survey of enterobiasis among 237 children in the Central Philippine University School, Iloilo, is reported. The overall incidence wasf 59.9 percentThe prevalence of approximately 60 percent in this and other studies indicates that pinworms are not rare in the tropicsThe similarity of the frequencies from the several grades (I-VII) indicates that age was not a factor in the distributionA frequency of approximately 60 percent in school boys in Chile, and as high as 60 percent for Caucasians in the United States and Canada, indicates that race is probably not a factorThe overall incidence of infestation among males is higher than among females. Since these findings are opposed to those of Akagi (1952) and Cabrera, et al. (1961), and agree with those of Cram (1943), it is suggested that sex is not a factor in the distributionIt is suggested that socio-economic stratification is probably the predominant cause of variations in the results of pinworm surveys. (Summary)