| helminthic infestations in the tyrol, austria. | at the federal public health laboratory, innsbruck, 142 426 samples were examined for intestinal helminthosis from 1990 until 2000. enterobius vermicularis accounted for half (49.7%) of the cases diagnosed, followed by taenia saginata (28.3%), ascaris lumbricoides (12.8%), and trichuris trichiura (3.9%). of all specimens tested for helminths, 26% had been positive in 1945, and 0.98% in 1985. the proportion of positive findings with respect to the total number of specimens tested was 0.24% in the ... | 2001 | 11737090 |