Intestinal Parasites Associated with Acute Diarrhea in Children Under 12 Years of Age

• Main Authors: Wintila Rincón, Ellen Acurero, Elvia Serrano, Marisol Quintero, Sharline Beauchamp
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2006
• Subjects: Diarrea aguda; Enteroparásitos; B. hominis; E. histolytica; G. lamblia; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/0d49564620e54b809f6f4c1b20479e1c

Diarrhea is a serious public health problem and intestinal parasites are one of causes of the same. In order to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasite species involved in acute diarrhea in children under 12 years of age, this study was carried out. The sample was 58 children of both sexes s...