Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
- Volume 24 Issue 2
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- Pages.213-215
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- 1986
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- 2982-5164(pISSN)
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- 1738-0006(eISSN)
A Survey on Intestinal Parasites of Soldiers in Korea
일부 국군 장병의 최근 장내 기생충 감염 현황
- Hong, Sung-Tae (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Endemic Diseases, College of Medicine, Seoul National University)
- 홍성태 (서울대학교 의과대학 기생충학교실 및 풍토병연구소)
- Published : 1986.12.31
Abstract
Total of 2,643 Korean soldiers were examined of their stool for parasitic infections by both cellophane thick smear and formalin-ether concentration techniques from August, 1983 to December, 1985. Out of them, 73.6% were free from any parasite, 22.6% were ova positive and 4.0% cyst positive. The ova positive rates by species were Ascaris lumbricoides 2.0%, Trichuris trichiura 13.0%, hookworm and Trichostrongylus orientalis 0.08% respectively, Clonorchis sinensis 7.6%, Metagonimus yokogawai 1.1%, Paragonimus westermani 0.08%, Echinostoma hortense 0.04%, Fibricola seoulensis 0.9%, Taenia sp. 0.3%, Hymenolepis nana 0.2% and H. diminuta 0.04%. Most of them (87.3%) were positive by a species, 11.9% by two and 0.8% by 3 species. The cyst positive rates were Entamoeba histolytica 0.6%, E. coli 1.4%, Endolimax nana 1.7%, Iodoamoeba butschlii 0.04% and Giardia lamblia 0.9%. Among the cyst positives, 89.5% were positive by a species, 7.6% by two and 0.5% by 3 species. The intestinal parasite infections among the Korean soldiers decreased distinctly compared with previous data.
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