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- Title
Parasitosis intestinales en niños de edad escolar en Jancao (Huánuco) Perú.
- Authors
Palacios Zevallos, Juana Irma; Velázquez Bernal, Libia Rocío; Vigíl Pinedo, Nazly Leticia; Esteban Robladillo, Isabel; Velázquez Bernal, Alex Camilo; Enriquez Medina, Giancarlo Remigio
- Abstract
Intestinal parasitic infections are common worldwide, especially in developing nations, and carry a significant burden of disease. Objective. To estimate the prevalence of intestinal parasitism in school-aged children aged 6 to 12 years residing in the Jancao population center (Huánuco) Peru. Materials and methods. It was developed by means of a cross-sectional observational cohort study. A sample was calculated with a confidence level of 95%, an estimated error of 5% and an expected proportion of patients of 0.2. The calculated sample was 186 persons. The inclusion criteria considered were male or female, aged 6 to 12 years. Results. Twenty-seven percent of the sampled individuals were positive. Giardia lambia and Taenia solium had the highest prevalence percentages in the studied population 24% and 18% respectively, both percentages differed significantly with those of Entoameba histolytica and Enterobius vermicularis for p<2.2e-16. The distribution by sex of the prevalence of identeric parasitosis did not show significant differences in any of the variants analyzed. The distribution of intestinal parasitosis according to three age strata in general did not generate significant differences between the values observed. Conclusions. The most prevalent parasitosis in children between the ages of 6 to 7 years, 8 to 9 years, 10 to 12 years in the Jancao de Huánuco population center in Peru corresponds to Giardia lambia and Taenia solium.
- Subjects
PERU; CROSS-sectional method; GIARDIA lamblia; SCIENTIFIC observation; GIARDIASIS; TAENIASIS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LONGITUDINAL method; OXYURIASIS; CONFIDENCE intervals; INTESTINAL parasites; CHILDREN
- Publication
Revista de Investigación en Salud VIVE, 2024, Vol 7, Issue 19, p174
- ISSN
2664-3243
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33996/revistavive.v7i19.293