Child Parasytosis in Marginal Areas Of San Luis

GERMÁN ALEJANDRO MESSINA; PATRICIA WANDA STEGE; PABLO S. TORRES; ANDREA V. CELI; ADRIANA S. VEGA; RAUL P. HASUOKA

San Luis, Argentina

Congreso; Cuyo Biology Society.; 2003

Parasite diseases are more frequent in underdeveloped countries. The purpose of this work was to determine the prevalence of parasitosis in the child population of some marginal areas of the city of San Luis. Children (n=140) of up to 14 years of age belonging to three areas of different socioeconomic level (A- middle, B- low and C-very low) were studied. Two types of samples were obtained for each subject: perianal swabhinp to detect Enterolo dclccl Knfí'nihi/'trx \cinticiiliuif and Tcrnn s/> and stool sereeninjí lo dclccl Ihc rcniain inj; ciilci'opai asiles. Ihc residís indícale a Icndrncy (p< (VOS) lo a hiulicr pcrc.cnlape oí siihjecls willi píirasilcs in ¡íroup U as com-pared lo A. .Sipnidcanl dilTcrcnccs wcre also oh.scrvcd (p< O.O'I) hclwe.cn A and (', whilc no didercnccs wcrc fonnd hclwecn I! and ('. I;or all sludicd childrcn, Ihc prcvalcnce ol'lhc dclcc.lcd parasilcs was: Hlnsldi \:\fi.\ hoiiiini.\. 37%; Kiilcrahiiis Yciiniciilnrit, 20.2%; /•jilfiiiioflxi culi, M..1%; (iianlin (linx/i'iifili.^. 9.6%; Im/rntttir-htt h/i/í.fc/i/n, 7.')%; and l/riiicnrili'/>i.<; nana. S.X%. ( 'liili>nifi\li\ nir\nili. /I,vcaris liiin/ii'icrii/íi'.'i, I'.ndciliinin nnnn and Inirr,ii«,«>,:.•: ihiiiiíiií.-! wcrc fonnd in lowci proporlions.