Intestinal parasitic infections in the residents of an emigration camp in Tijuana, Mexico

Korean J Parasitol. 1995 Mar;33(1):65-7. doi: 10.3347/kjp.1995.33.1.65.

Abstract

We examined stool specimens of the residents in the emigration camp in Tijuana, Mexico for helminth eggs or protozoan cysts with formalin-ethyl acetate concentration method in February and July 1992. Out of 92 examined samples, number of positive was 49 (53.3%). While number of cumulative positive was 66 (71.7%). Cysts of Entamoeba coli (29.3%) Giardia lamblia (9.8%), Entamoeba histolytica (7.6%), and eggs of Taenia spp. (6.5) were most frequently observed. Filtered water supply and chemotherapy were required in this camp.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Concentration Camps
  • Emigration and Immigration*
  • Eukaryota / isolation & purification
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Female
  • Helminths / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / epidemiology*
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / parasitology
  • Male
  • Mexico / epidemiology
  • Middle Aged