| 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 |
| intensity of reinfection with ascaris lumbricoides and its implications for parasite control. | intestinal helminths are among the most common and widespread of human infections. because it is typical to find that most worms are aggregated in a few potential hosts it has been suggested that some individuals are predisposed to heavy infections and that morbidity could be controlled by the treatment of heavily infected individuals only. we have studied the prevalence and intensity of reinfection with the intestinal nematode ascaris lumbricoides among people living in dhaka, bangladesh. 880 p ... | 1992 | 1349668 |
| 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 |
| role of breast feeding in preventing acquisition of roundworm and hookworm in dhaka slum children. | breastfeeding was found to give protection against many gastrointestinal infections in infants. a study has been conducted to examine whether breastfeeding protects children contracting from ascaris lumbricoides and hookworm infections. a history of breastfeeding and supplementation in urban children from low economic strata were obtained and stools were examined for the ova of ascaris and hookworm. there was no significant difference in the presence of hookworm ova between the only breastfed ... | 1983 | 6674198 |
| vitamin a absorption in children with ascariasis. | the effect of ascaris lumbricoides infection on retinol absorption was investigated in young children from a slum area of dhaka city, bangladesh. twenty-four children aged 4-10 years were screened and in every case eggs of either ascaris, trichuris or hookworm were isolated from the stool. the average serum retinol was 0.91 (sd 0.35) mumol/l and sixteen children had levels below 1.05 mumol/l. this compared with a serum retinol concentration of 1.70 (sd 0.52) mumol/l in five reference children fr ... | 1993 | 8329356 |
| 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 |
| individual predisposition, household clustering and risk factors for human infection with ascaris lumbricoides: new epidemiological insights. | much of our current understanding of the epidemiology of ascaris lumbricoides infections in humans has been acquired by analyzing worm count data. these data are collected by treating infected individuals with anthelmintics so that worms are expelled intact from the gastrointestinal tract. analysis of such data established that individuals are predisposed to infection with few or many worms and members of the same household tend to harbor similar numbers of worms. these effects, known respective ... | 2011 | 21541362 |