| intestinal parasitic infestation in urban and rural xhosa children. a comparative study. | evidence of helminthic intestinal parasites was found in 97,0% of stools of 544 xhosa schoolchildren living in cape town. the commonest parasite was trichuris trichiura, which infested 89,9% of the children. in contrast, only 9,8% of 387 xhosa children living in the tsolo district, transkei, had evidence of intestinal parasites in their stools, hymenolepis nana being the commonest. in spite of the unsatisfactory sanitary conditions in the tsolo area compared with those in guguletu, cape town, wh ... | 1979 | 462313 |
| efficacy of albendazole against the whipworm trichuris trichiura--a randomised, controlled trial. | to test the efficacy of albendazole against the whipworm trichuris trichiura for school-based deworming in the south-western cape, south africa. children infected with trichuris were randomised to 3 doses of albendazole (400, 800 or 1200 mg), each repeated 4 times. the boy/girl ratio was 1. a group not infected with worms was treated with placebo, creating a negative control. | 2004 | 15662995 |
| epidemiological aspects of liver abscesses in children in the western cape province of south africa. | a high incidence (28 per 100,000 admissions) of liver abscesses is reported in children from the western cape province of south africa. of a total of 84 childhood hepatic abscesses over a 10-year period, 51 per cent (43 patients) were primary pyogenic, 30 per cent (25 patients) amoebic, 2 per cent (two patients) ascaris, and 17 per cent (14 patients) were culture negative. protein calorie malnutrition was evident in 56 per cent of cases. amoebic abscesses originated in patients from rural areas, ... | 1997 | 9143181 |
| parasitic infestation in cape town children. a random study of 101 patients. | over a 12-month period random stool specimens were collected from 101 children admitted to the trauma unit of the red cross war memorial children's hospital, cape town. the majority of the children were resident on the cape flats or in mitchell's plain. examination of the stools showed evidence of parasitic infestation in 46 of the children, of whom 39 harboured ascaris lumbricoides (8), trichuris trichiura (11) or both (20). cysts of giardia lamblia were identified in 8 patients. these findings ... | 1989 | 2772766 |