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Med Parazitol (Mosk)
; (4): 35-7, 2000.
Article
in Russian
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11210414
ABSTRACT
Based on their retrospective epidemiological analysis and examination of 56 outpatient case histories, the authors have studied the clinical and epidemiological regularities of hymenolepiasis in the Ivano-Frankovsk region, which is characterized by: 1) its epidemic and familial pattern, mainly afflicting rural populations, young schoolchildren in particular; 2) high contagiousness and incidence of multiinvasions in the tense foci; 3) a number of the most typical syndromes identified in the clinical picture of helminthic infections, which may serve as criteria for selecting patients for laboratory studies.