| follow-up of ascaris lumbricoides and trichuris trichiura infections in children living in a community treated with ivermectin at 3-monthly intervals. | ivermectin treatment was administered every 3 months over a 1-year period (april 1993-april 1994) to the whole eligible population of a village in south cameroon where both ascaris lumbricoides and trichuris trichiura were hyper-endemic. a parasitological stool examination was performed before each treatment. thirty children, aged 5-15 years, were not only found egg-positive for a. lumbricoides and/or t. trichiura before the first treatment but were also each treated and examined in each treatme ... | 2001 | 11454248 |
| epidemiology of intestinal nematodes in school-age children of the kumba urban area, south west cameroon. | the urban slums, poorly disposed garbage and inadequate toilet facilities in many homes, coupled with the high temperatures, rainfall and humidity that characterise the kumba urban area, favour the development and transmission of helminth parasites in the area. school-age children are particularly at risk of infection. | 2005 | 16463749 |
| the epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminth and protozoan infections in south-west cameroon. | a cross-sectional study of the prevalence, intensity and effects of soil-transmitted helminth and protozoan infections was undertaken among patients at the buea hospital annex located in buea sub-division of cameroon. stool samples from 356 subjects (174 males and 182 females) were collected and processed using standard concentration methods. our results showed that 31.0% of subjects were infected with intestinal helminths and the prevalence was higher in females (32.4%) than in males (30.5%). a ... | 2011 | 21281528 |