| prevalence of intestinal parasites in the human population of león, nicaragua. | intestinal parasites appear to be prevalent in nicaragua, which motivated a more extensive prevalence study in which socioeconomic conditions such as degree of crowding, quality of water supply, type of floor and disposal of excretion, were considered. the study was performed on 1267 stool samples from about 8% of the citizens of the city of león. the overall prevalence of intestinal pathogenic parasites among the 1267 individuals was found to be 47.2%. the prevalence of entamoeba histolytica/di ... | 1997 | 9210962 |