| household aggregation of strongyloides stercoralis infection in bangladesh. | strongyloides stercoralis infections were shown to be aggregated in households in an urban slum community in dhaka, bangladesh. parasitological data on 880 residents living in 280 households were analysed statistically using 3 different tests, each of which yielded significant evidence of household aggregation of s. stercoralis infection. one test was applied to the data after stratification for 4 variables were previously shown to be independently associated with infection. evidence of househol ... | 1995 | 7660426 |
| strongyloides stercoralis in an urban slum community in bangladesh: factors independently associated with infection. | stool samples from 880 residents in an urban slum in dhaka, bangladesh, were collected on 3 occasions over one year, and examined for intestinal parasites. information on many potential risk factors for infection was obtained by questionnaire from a respondent in each household studied. in a crude univariate analysis of the data, several of the factors were found to be significantly associated with strongyloides stercoralis infection. most of these factors were co-variate with one another, and w ... | 1994 | 7992327 |
| strongyloidiasis in a high risk community of dhaka, bangladesh. | residents of a slum community of dhaka city, bangladesh were tested by serological and faecal examination for evidence of strongyloides stercoralis infection. in stool specimens from a total of 147 participants strongyloides larvae were found in 34 (23.1%) by harada-mori culture, 15 (10.2%) by agar plate culture (apc) and one (0.7%) by microscopy. strongyloides igg, igg1 and igg4 antibodies were found in 90 (61.2%), 46 (31.3%) and 53 (36.1%) of participants, respectively. a positive correlation ... | 2012 | 23084030 |
| seroepidemiology of strongyloides stercoralis in dhaka, bangladesh. | human strongyloidiasis is a neglected tropical disease with global distribution and this infection is caused by the parasitic nematode strongyloides stercoralis. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of strongyloidiasis in dhaka, bangladesh. sera from 1004 residents from a slum (group a) and 299 from city dwellers (group b) were tested for total igg and igg subclasses to strongyloides antigen. there was a significant difference (p < 0·001) in igg seroprevalence between group a (2 ... | 2012 | 22813776 |