Epidemiology of Intestinal Parasites in Pediatric Patients: Example of Ordu Province
Abstract
Objective: In this study, the aim was to investigate the incidence of intestinal parasites in children, demographic features related to parasite positivity, life style features and accompanying symptoms.
Materials and Methods: Fecal samples from 342 children (49.1% girls, 50.9% boys) attending with different symptoms were investigated with native, lugol, trichrome, acid fast, sedimentation and cellophane anal band methods for parasite diagnosis.
Results: All cases, 29% were preschool age of 1-5 years, 45.6% were 6-10 years and 25.4% were 11-18 years old. The incidence of intestinal parasites was 51.2% with the most commonly observed parasites identified as Cryptosporidium spp. (41.1%), Blastocystis spp. (40.6%), and Enterobius vermicularis (21.1%). Settlement area was determined to be a lifestyle feature significant for parasite positivity (p<0.05).
Conclusion: It was concluded that intestinal parasites were common among children in Ordu province, due to the detection of intestinal parasites (51.2%) in more than half of the children constituting the sample in the study. In line with this, educations should be organized about the transmission of parasites to children and ways of protection against transmission. Also, regular health check-ups of children must be done.
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Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Ülkü Karaman
0000-0001-9708-2716
Türkiye
Yeliz Kaşko Arıcı
0000-0001-6820-0381
Türkiye
Cemil Çolak
0000-0001-5406-098X
Türkiye
Gamze Yolalan
Bu kişi benim
0000-0002-3125-9379
Türkiye
Şermin Top
0000-0003-2684-7798
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
5 Eylül 2021
Gönderilme Tarihi
7 Mart 2021
Kabul Tarihi
14 Temmuz 2021
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 3