| intestinal coccidia in cuban pediatric patients with diarrhea. | from may to august 1999, we evaluated 401 patients from a pediatric hospital of havana city. one group was composed of 113 patients with diarrhea admitted to the gastroenterology ward and a second consisted of 288 patients without diarrhea, admitted for other reasons, and hospitalized within the same time period. three stool samples were collected from each child and were examined using three parasitological techniques. when we compared the frequency of parasite species between both groups, we f ... | 2003 | 12937770 |
| [intestinal parasitic infections in 4 child day-care centers located in san miguel del padrón municipality, havana city, 1998]. | a coproparasitologic study was performed on 456 children aged 1-5 years from 4 day-care centers located in san miguel del padrón municipality during november 1998, with the aim of finding out the behaviour of the main intestinal parasites and particularly how giardia lamblia was affecting this child population. three fecal specimens were collected from each child in every other day, which were processed by coproparasitologic methods such as direct testing and ritchie's concentration technique. t ... | 2001 | 15846922 |
| [intestinal parasitosis in children admitted to the pediatric teaching hospital of cerro, havana city, cuba]. | a study on intestinal parasitism was conducted among 401 children admitted in the pediatric teaching hospital of cerro, from may to june, 1999. to this end, a representative, randomized and stratified sample by service was taken. 3 samples of feces per child were collected, preserved in formaldehyde, and processed by 3 parasitological methods. there was an intestinal parasitism prevalence of 15% at the hospital and there were no differences between the stratum of children admitted in gastroenter ... | 2003 | 15849948 |