Frequency of Intestinal Parasitism and Epidemiological Characteristics of the 1 to 12 Year-Old Child Population Treated at the Cerro Gordo Type II Urban Outpatient Clinic. Barquisimeto, State of Lara. January-June 2007

• Main Authors: Melisa Fuentes, Liset Galíndez, Dayana García, Nora González, Juan Goyanes, Herrera Eddy, Sánchez Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2011
• Subjects: parasitosis intestinales; características epidemiológicas; B. hominis; G. lamblia; complejo entamoeba histolytica/entamoeba dispar; H. nana; A. lumbricoides; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Ritchie
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/96e24bcb5d3d4ab499a27fa2771ec9f2

A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine intestinal parasitism in children treated at the “Cerro Gordo” Type II Urban Outpatient Clinic in Barquisimeto, Lara. Feces samples were collected from 106 children (1-12 years old) and analyzed using both direct and Ritchie´s technique analyses, de...