[Prevalence if giardiasis in Volgograd city population]

Med Parazitol (Mosk). 2003 Oct-Dec:(4):38-9.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Analyzing many year's data on the prevalence of giardiasis among Volgograd dwellers indicated that the five-year infectivity index did not substantially change and it was 6.3 +/- 0.4%. The rate of Giardia lamblia isolation was higher in healthy individuals in the high-loaded environmental topodemic regions of the city than in those in the good ones. Over 50% of all the cases of giardiasis were recorded among 7-15-year-old children, the proportion of preschool children was much less (31.9%). The rate of giardiasis detection in children who went to children's preschool facilities was twice higher than that in the unorganized population. The focality index was 6.8%, which is indicative of the low contagiousness of the disease.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Giardia lamblia / isolation & purification*
  • Giardiasis / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prevalence
  • Russia / epidemiology
  • Urban Population