| prevalence of intestinal protozoa in an aborigine community in pahang, malaysia. | the objective was to estimate the prevalence of intestinal protozoa among the aborigines and to determine the problems regarding the infection. the study was carried out in january 2006 in pos senderut, pahang, malaysia. samples of faeces were collected from children and adults and these were fixed in pva and trichrome staining was carried out. from the 130 individuals studied, 94 (72.3%) were positive with at least one intestinal protozoa. nine intestinal protozoa namely blastocystis hominis, g ... | 2007 | 17568378 |
| prevalence of intestinal protozoan infections among orang asli schoolchildren in pos senderut, pahang, malaysia. | the current study determined the prevalence of intestinal protozoan infections among the orang asli schoolchildren in pos senderut, pahang, malaysia. the overall intestinal protozoan infection rate was 85% (261 out of 307). the highest prevalence rates were due to entamoeba coli (24.4%), giardia lamblia (21.8%), blastocystis hominis (21.2%) and entamoeba histolytica (15.0%). the prevalence of iodamoeba butschlii was only 2.9%. among the positive samples, mixed infection with b. hominis and e. hi ... | 2013 | 24640856 |