| prevalence of intestinal parasitoses in relationship to diarrhoea among children in ilorin. | studies on the role of intestinal parasites in diarrhoeal disease in children were carried out among 907 children of one month to 120 months (10 years) of age both at out patients and inpatients in unilorin teaching hospital. the most common intestinal parasites found were ascaris lumbricoides (40.9%), trichuris trichiura (27%), hookworm (10.2%), strongyloides stercoralis (9.7%), e. histolytica (6.3%), trichomona vaginalis (2.8%). taenia saginata (1.7%) and 1.1% of paragonimus westermani, among ... | 1990 | 2268573 |