Enteroparasitosis en la V Región, Chile: estudio en escolares rurales de Santo Domingo, 1987 / Enteroparasitoses in the V Region, Chile. A study of rural school children from Santo Domingo, 1987

ABSTRACT

The results of a new enteroparasitological survey carried out by the authors are analized with the aim of contributing to the knowledge of the situation of these infections in the V Region. In 1987 the children of five rural schools of Santo Domingo were studied by means of the modified Telemann method, the Ziehl-Neelsen stain and seried Graham test. The parasites more frequently found were E. vermicularis (50.4%) and G. lamblia (10.8%). No E. histolytica was found in these children. The most frequent commensal was E. nana (21.9%). Cryptosporindium sp. presented a low frequency (0.9%), a figure that in these asymptomatic subjects is in accordance with that found in outpatients with chronic diarrhea in Valparaísa, V Region