Prevalence of endoparasitic infection in children and its relation with cholera prevention efforts in Mexico

The 42% household prevalence of parasitic infection was relatively high and indicates that some residents of this community may not have fully embraced the public health education efforts promoted for prevention of cholera. The occurrence of nonpathogenic protozoan parasites such as Endolimax nana, Entamoeba coli, Entamoeba hartmanni, and I. bütschlii are important bioindicators for the persistence of unhygienic behaviors that increase the risk of cholera and other infectious diseases dependent on fecal-oral transmission. Information obtained by similar studies can be useful for monitoring compliance with community health and hygiene programs and may indicate the need to intensify educational efforts for the prevention of diarrhea associated with enteric pathogens that cannot be controlled by drugs alone

Ascaris lumbricoides · Biology · Cholera · Entamoeba coli · Entamoeba histolytica · Enterobius · Environmental health · Feces · Giardia lamblia · Helminths · Hymenolepis nana · Latrine · Necator americanus · Sanitation · Strongyloides stercoralis · Trichuris · Trichuris trichiura · Veterinary medicine · Amoebic Infections and Treatments · Medicine · Parasites and Host Interactions · Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics · Immunology · Microbiology · Virology