| prevalence of malnutrition and intestinal parasites in preschool slum children in lucknow. | to assess the point prevalence of intestinal parasites and their association with nutritional parameters. | 1997 | 9401252 |
| six-monthly de-worming in infants to study effects on growth. | the study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of six monthly albendazole (abz) for improving the weight and height of preschool children when initiated at 0.5-1 year of age in populations with a high transmission rate of intestinal roundworm, ascaris lumbricoides. it was a cluster randomized trial in the urban slums of lucknow, north india. | 2001 | 11669028 |
| prevalence of intestinal parasites in rural areas of district shahjahanpur, uttar pradesh. | a stool survey was carried out in some of the villages of dadraul and bhawal khera phc's of district shahjahanpur (uttar pradesh). out of 381 individuals examined 111 (29.2 per cent) were found positive for one or the other intestinal parasite. ascaris lumbricoides superseded all the parasites by showing a positivity of 17.85 percent. other parasites found were hookworm, hymenolepis nana, tapeworm, trichuris trichiura, enterobius vermicularis, entamoeba histolytica, e. coli and giardia lamblia. ... | 1994 | 7989672 |
| a profile of diarrhoea in an urban slum area. | researchers followed 90 households (445 people) in sunderpur slum in varanasi in upper pradesh, india for 1 year and collected stool samples when people were ill with diarrhea to determine diarrhea incidence and causes of diarrheal disease. the water supply consisted of a well, public tap, or house tap with 30 households in each group. they noted 106 diarrheal episodes for an incidence of around 23%. incidence decreased significantly with age (p.001). for example, it was 62.9% for children 5 ... | 1990 | 2101391 |
| intestinal perforation in children. | there were 102 cases of intestinal perforation seen in children at the department of paediatric surgery at s.s. hospital, varanasi during a 3 year period. enteric (typhoid) perforation (29%), intussusception (15%) ascaris lumbricoides infestation (9%) and appendicitis (9%), which are rarities in the reported literature, were the major causes of intestinal perforation. radiological evidence of pneumoperitoneum was seen in 88% of patients. the majority of cases in this study were older than 5 year ... | 1989 | 2735889 |