Screening method for the detection of parasitosis in children during mass examinations[user_id]

AUTHORS : Kadochnikova G.V. | Merzlova N.B. | Gorban L.Ya. | Kolesnik N.V.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : GOU VPO “Perm State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health Russia “, Perm, Russia

YEAR : 2003 | Category : Screening Method

Helminths and intestinal dwellers are protozoa, continue to be the most common parasitic diseases in humans and occupy an important place in the problems of gastroenterology, especially in children [5, 6, 7, 8]. In the Perm region, the average annual incidence rate of parasitoses is 1380 per 100,000 population. According to statistical research, for the period from 1988 to 2001, there is a steady upward trend in this indicator from 657.7 to 1209 per 100 thousand people.

The main contingent of cases (77.1%) are children under 14 years of age. One of the features of helminths is their ability to parasitize not only in the body of a particular host, but also to selectively localize in a particular organ, where they find optimal conditions for existence and reproduction [5, 10].