title: Bronchial asthma associated with intestinal parasites.
abstract: Fifty patients with bronchial asthma and 50 normal controls were studied in Hacettepe University Medical Center. Forty per cent of the patients with bronchial asthma and 14% of the controls had ascarides in the stool examinations. The significant difference in these two groups indicates that intestinal parasites, should be looked for in the patients with bronchial asthma.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000724:Ancylostomiasis / Q000150:complications; D001196:Ascariasis / Q000150:complications; D001249:Asthma / Q000209:etiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013622:Taeniasis / Q000150:complications