[Parasitological results of a medico-anthropological research-work at the Azande in northeast-Zaire (author's transl)].
Among 165 examined Azande 118 (71.5%) were found with intestinal helminthic infections: Hookworm (69.1%), Schistosoma mansoni (13.9%), Trichuris trichiura (4.2%), Ascaris lumbricoides (1.2%), Strongyloides stercoralis (0.6%). The intradermal Schistosoma test with a commercial antigen preparation was positive in 63.3% of 147 examinees. Protozoa-excretions were found in 62.2% of 151 examines: E. histolytica (27.2%), E. hartmanni (13.2%), E. coli (24.5%), Jodamoeba buetschlii (7.3%), Endolimax nana (1.3%), Lamblia intestinalis (17.2%). Microfilariae were found in 87 of 165 blood-smears (52.7%). The positive diagnoses increased with the age of the examinees. 73.8% of 141 examinees showed an increase of eosinophilic granulozytes up to 11-29%, and 7.8% up to more than 30%. The reliability of the methods used to conserve the test material under extreme conditions as well as the connection between ethnographical situations and the detected parasites are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D004404:Dysentery, Amebic / Q000453:epidemiology; D004804:Eosinophils; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006529:Hepatomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007428:Intradermal Tests; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008297:Male; D008842:Microfilariae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008875:Middle Aged; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012547:Schistosoma / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis
Parasitologische Ergebnisse einer medizinisch-anthropologischen Untersuchung bei den Azande Nordost-Zaires.