ABSTRACT
In the period 1997-2000 3968 samples were examined. Parasitological material came from 3 174 children and 794 adults. Infection with intestinal protozoan and helminthes was noted in 80.2% of children as well as in 18.5% of adults (to 65 year old) and in 1.3% of patients over 65 year old. Among the children the most often were eggs of Enterobius vermicularis (detected by tongue depressor covered with a transparent adhesive tape) and Giardia lamblia (diagnosed on the detection of coproantigens GSA 65--commercial kits). Every year the detection of G. lamblia in children was the highest in the autumn-winter months what proved the summer infections. E. vermicularis occurred more often than G. lamblia however without the seasonal peaks.
Subject(s)
Enterobius/isolation & purification , Feces/parasitology , Giardia/isolation & purification , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/diagnosis , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Animals , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/parasitology , Middle Aged , Poland/epidemiology , Seasons , Specimen HandlingABSTRACT
In the period 1990-1997 several thousand patients from Wroclaw and Walbrzych hospitals as well as inhabitants of Wroclaw city were examined for intestinal parasites. The presence of parasites was noted in 12.3% of 2173 patients from the District Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Wroclaw, 3.2% of 599 from Walbrzych Hospital and 39.3% (mostly Enterobius vermicularis) of 746 ambulatory examined persons in the Private Analytical Laboratory in Wroclaw. Among the intestinal protozoa the most frequent was Giardia intestinalis (from 5.7 to 18.1%) and Entamoeba coli (0.5-0.6%); the remaining amoebas (E. histolytica, E. hartmanni, E. polecki and Endolimax nana) as well as Chilomonas mesnili was present only in single cases. Enterobiosis was observed in nearly half of the total number of examined children (1808); the most rarely found helminths were Opisorchis felineus (! Adult patient), Strongyloides stercoralis (2) and Trichuris trichiura (8); Taenia saginata was found in 56 patients, which constituted 1.6% of the total number of examined cases and Ascaris lumbricoides in 40 (1.2%).
