Publications
| contributions of ascariasis to poor nutritional status in children from chiriqui province, republic of panama. | relationships between ascariasis and lactose digestion and between ascariasis and food transit time from mouth to caecum were investigated in young children from chiriqui province, republic of panama. the breath hydrogen method was used in both studies. ascaris-infected children showed a significantly poorer degree of lactose digestion following a test oral load than uninfected children. recovery of the capacity of the children to digest lactose was still not fully complete for at least 3 weeks ... | 1987 | 3696781 |
| ascaris lumbricoides infection in pre-school children from chiriqui province, panama. | an epidemiological survey of intestinal parasitic infections was conducted in a sample of 203 children aged 3-5 years from a semi-urban and a rural community in chiriqui, panama, in 1983-4. on the basis of stool examinations, the prevalences of ascaris lumbricoides, trichuris trichiura, hookworm, giardia intestinalis, entamoeba spp. and strongyloides stercoralis were found to be 27, 34, 14, 15, 5 and 4% respectively. the results from children from the two communities were compared. polyparasitis ... | 1987 | 3696782 |