Abstract

URQUIZA YERO, Yisell; DOMINGUEZ CAISES, Liset María  and  ARTILES YANES, Melva. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of intestinal parasitism in children aged 0 to 5. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2011, vol.27, n.1, pp.105-113. ISSN 0864-2125.

Objective: to carry out a clinical and epidemiological characterization of intestinal parasitism in children aged 0 to 5 from Altos de Uslar, Libertador, Carabobo, Venezuela medical consulting room. Methods: a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted from January to December, 2006 in 83 children presenting or not intestinal parasitism symptomatology in which cases feces samples were taken. Information was collected by surveys applied to legal protectors. Results: the general frequency of the parasitism was of 67,48 %, with predominance of male sex over the female one; the more frequent species were Ascaris lumbricoides and Enterobius vermicularis and the 61,45 % of patients had polyparasitism. Among the factors favoring the parasitosis were presence of vectors, poor health habits and non-treated water consumption. Conclusions: there was predominance of patients aged 5 and male sex, as well as the polyparasitism, helminths and the poor hygienic-sanitary conditions at homes and as main risk factors is presence of vectors, insufficient hands hygiene and foods for consumption, as well as the low sanitary quality of water.

Keywords : Intestinal parasitism; Carabobo; Libertador.

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