| disease agents carried by flies in dacca city. | studies were conducted to determine the different disease agents naturally carried by flies in dacca city by collecting outdoor unbaited flies from 8 different representative locations and identifying the agents in the laboratory. out of 96 fly pools containing 25 flies each, 62.5%, 46.9%, 15.6%, 8.3%, 8.3%, 15.6% and 6.2% of the pools were found positive for ascaris lumbrioeides, trichuris trichiura, hookworm, enterebious vermicularis eggs and entamoeba coli, trichomonas spp giardia spp. cysts, ... | 1978 | 757347 |
| intestinal parasites in university of dacca students. | nine hundred and thirty three students of dacca university were examined: mean haemoglobin levels were 80.5 per cent for men and 70.0 per cent for women. five hundred and thirty three (57.3%) of the students had single or multiple intestinal parasitic infections, of which ascaris lumbricoides (366), entamoeba histolytica (113) and trichuris trichiura (99) were the commonest. it is suggested that chronic nutritional deficiencies are compounded by these parasites, leading to low weights, and low h ... | 1975 | 1214308 |
| parasitic, bacterial and viral pathogens isolated from diarrhoeal and routine stool specimens of urban bangladeshi children. | few data exist in bangladesh on longitudinal, community-based studies of bacterial or parasitic pathogens identified in routine and diarrhoeal stools of urban dwelling children. we undertook the following study on 343 children of age less than 6 years who resided in one of 51 slum settings in dhaka, bangladesh, between october 1984 and february 1986. specimens from diarrhoeal episodes and from routine stools obtained at 3-monthly intervals were examined for parasites, rotavirus and pathogenic ba ... | 1989 | 2537431 |
| arsenic-contaminated water and extent of acute childhood malnutrition (wasting) in rural bangladesh. | to investigate whether children's nutritional status, especially the extent of wasting [acute malnutrition as measured by weight-for-height z (whz) score] is associated with arsenic contamination of drinking water, a survey was carried out in two discrete rural areas located less than 30 km southeast and northeast of dhaka, the capital of bangladesh. 761 children between 7 and 14 years of age were randomly selected, one child per household. the arsenic concentration in the tube well water used b ... | 2005 | 16308561 |
| acute phase protein levels, t. trichiura, and maternal education are predictors of serum zinc in a cross-sectional study in bangladeshi children. | zinc deficiency is a public health issue in bangladesh. the objectives were to identify predictors of serum zinc concentration and to assess the prevalence of low serum zinc, in both the whole population, after correcting for the effect of serum c-reactive protein (crp) (using multiple categories), and the healthy subgroup. a cross-sectional study was conducted among 579 apparently healthy 3-7 y old children from a dhaka slum, bangladesh. using multiple linear regression, the effects of age, gen ... | 2006 | 16857851 |
| acute-phase protein levels, diarrhoea, trichuris trichiura and maternal education are predictors of serum retinol: a cross-sectional study of children in a dhaka slum, bangladesh. | the objectives of the present study were to identify predictors of serum retinol concentration as well as to assess the prevalence of low serum retinol concentration, in both the whole population after correcting for the effect of serum c-reactive protein (crp) (using multiple categories), and the healthy subgroup. a cross-sectional study of 579 apparently healthy children, aged 3-7 years from a dhaka slum, bangladesh, was conducted. the effects of age, gender, serum crp and alpha1-antichymotryp ... | 2006 | 17010233 |
| malnutrition and helminth infection affect performance of an interferon gamma-release assay. | we sought to compare the tuberculin skin test (tst) to the quantiferon-tb gold in-tube assay (qft-it) and assess the effects of malnourishment and intestinal helminth infection on qft-it results. | 2010 | 21059723 |
| albendazole and infections with trichuris trichiura and giardia intestinalis. | one hundred and twenty-eight children aged 4 to 11 years old in dhaka, bangladesh were treated for infections with trichuris trichiura and other intestinal parasites using a single dose of 400 mg of albendazole. only one trichuris infection was apparently cured although egg counts fell by about 50%. a larger single dosage is recommended to treat trichuris. eleven out of 46 infections with giardia intestinalis were not detected after treatment (p less than 0.001). | 1991 | 1948266 |