| 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 |
| allergic asthma in different population groups in the western cape. causative and complicating factors. | allergic asthma is a disease with a well-defined aetiology, the recognition and elimination of which could be achieved with relatively simple and inexpensive prophylactic treatment. some of the well-known factors--respiratory tract infections, exposure to cigarette smoke, specific antigens and regular application of prophylactic treatment--which could cause or complicate asthma were studied in groups of white and coloured patients. more respiratory tract infections occurred in coloured patients ... | 1988 | 3340935 |
| 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 |