Intestinal Parasitosis in Severely Malnourished Children at a Hospital in the City of Maracaibo, Venezuela

• Main Authors: Adriana Maldonado, Angela Bracho, Zulbey Rivero Rodríguez, Teresa Atencio, Nelly de Molano, Ellen Acurero, Marinella Calchi, Rafael Villalobos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2012
• Subjects: prevalencia; enteroparásitos; niños; desnutridos; eutróficos; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Ritchie
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c4b3a482d490435296d18a577098c343

To compare the prevalence of intestinal parasites in children with severe malnutrition in the Nutritional Recovery Unit at the Chiquinquirá Hospital of Maracaibo, State of Zulia, with eutrophic children attending consult for healthy children at the same hospital, stool examinations were performed fo...