[Surveillance of soil-transmitted nematode infections in Menghai County, Yunnan Province from 2006 to 2009]

Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi. 2011 Jun;23(3):272, 278.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

In the national monitoring point, Menghai County, Yunnan Province, the total prevalence rate of soil-transmitted nematode infections was 88.12%, of which the rates of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm and cestode infections were 69.70%, 59.79%, 36.79%, and 1.30% respectively from 2006 to 2009. The infection intensities were slight. The Ascaris lumbricoides infection rate in soil of vegetable garden was 44.5%. In conclusion, the infection rate of soil-transmitted nematodes is high in the monitoring point.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Animals
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • China / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nematoda / isolation & purification
  • Nematoda / physiology*
  • Nematode Infections / epidemiology*
  • Nematode Infections / parasitology
  • Sentinel Surveillance*
  • Soil / parasitology*

Substances

  • Soil