[Intestinal helminthiasis on Ancien-Fresco island (Ivory Coast)]

Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales. 1988;81(4):740-2.
[Article in French]

Abstract

An epidemiologic survey has been done in November 1987 on 220 children aged from one to four in the Ancien-Fresco island (Côte-d'Ivoire). The results show that 84.5% of the children whose excreta have been examined have parasites. The Ascaridiasis is the helminthiasis the most frequent.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Ascaridiasis / epidemiology
  • Ascaridiasis / parasitology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Female
  • Helminthiasis / epidemiology*
  • Helminthiasis / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / epidemiology*
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / parasitology
  • Male