Some helminthozoonotic infections in Zambia.
Parasitic infections constitute an important group of zoonoses. Stool examination of inpatients, medical examinees and out-patients in a sub-tropical environment established that Inermicapsifer madagascariensis and Schistosoma mattheei are occasionally anthropozoonotic in Zambia. Strongyloides fülleborni, a species normally parasitic in primates is not uncommon in man; whether it is anthropozoonotic or a parasite well adapted to man in this part of Africa needs further investigation. The finding of unidentified spiruroid ova was considered to be due to a spurious infection. The need for the differentiation of such organisms from those commonly infecting man is emphasized especially since the literature on such a subject is so sparse in the country and on the continent.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002590:Cestode Infections / Q000469:parasitology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology; D012547:Schistosoma; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000469:parasitology; D013151:Spiruroidea; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000469:parasitology; D015024:Zambia; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000469:parasitology*