| paradoxical helminthiasis and giardiasis in cape town, south africa: epidemiology and control. | south africa has endorsed a world health assembly (wha) resolution calling for control of soil-transmitted helminths (sths). in cape town, services and housing that exist in old-established suburbs should minimise the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections, even when residents are poor. where families live in shacks in densely-populated areas without effective sanitation, more than 90% of children can be infected by sths. the humoral immune response to worms theoretically favours infectio ... | 2005 | 16006220 |
| paradoxical helminthiasis and giardiasis in cape town, south africa: epidemiology and control. | south africa has endorsed a world health assembly (wha) resolution calling for control of soil-transmitted helminths (sths). in cape town, services and housing that exist in old-established suburbs should minimise the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections, even when residents are poor. where families live in shacks in densely-populated areas without effective sanitation, more than 90% of children can be infected by sths. the humoral immune response to worms theoretically favours infectio ... | 2005 | 16246001 |
| intestinal parasitic infestation in urban and rural xhosa children. a comparative study. | evidence of helminthic intestinal parasites was found in 97,0% of stools of 544 xhosa schoolchildren living in cape town. the commonest parasite was trichuris trichiura, which infested 89,9% of the children. in contrast, only 9,8% of 387 xhosa children living in the tsolo district, transkei, had evidence of intestinal parasites in their stools, hymenolepis nana being the commonest. in spite of the unsatisfactory sanitary conditions in the tsolo area compared with those in guguletu, cape town, wh ... | 1979 | 462313 |