| giardia lamblia: a major parasitic cause of childhood diarrhoea in patients attending a district hospital in ghana. | acute childhood diarrhoea remains one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries. the who has accordingly underlined the need for epidemiological surveys of infantile diarrhoea in all geographical areas. this study was conducted to determine the incidence of intestinal parasites among stool samples from children examined at a secondary health care facility in a rural area of ghana. | 2011 | 21859463 |
| pesticide and pathogen contamination of vegetables in ghana's urban markets. | the objective of the study was to determine and compare the current level of exposure of the ghanaian urban population to hazardous pesticide and fecal coliform contamination through the consumption of fresh vegetables produced in intensive urban and periurban smallholder agriculture with informal wastewater irrigation. a total of 180 vegetable samples (lettuce, cabbage, and spring onion) were randomly collected under normal purchase conditions from 9 major markets and 12 specialized selling poi ... | 2006 | 16328619 |
| prevalence of pathogenic escherichia coli and parasites in infants with diarrhoea in kumasi, ghana. | to determine the relative frequencies and prevalence rates of pathogenic escherichia coli and intestinal parasites in hospitalised infants (0-5 years) in kumasi. | 2004 | 15490707 |