Prevalence and frequency of Giardia lamblia in children aged 0 to 60 months with and without diarrhoea.
Stool specimen results from children with diarrhoea and without diarrhoea, in a rural village community in Kenya, were analysed in order to compare prevalence and age frequency distributions of Giardia between the 2 groups. There was evidence for 2 age-related prevalence peaks for Giardia in children 60 months and below. Furthermore, there appeared to be a clear Giardia-diarrhoea relationship in the age group of 19 to 24 months.
Chunge
R N
RN
Medical Research Centre, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi.
Karumba
P N
PN
Kaleli
N
N
Wamwea
M
M
Mutiso
N
N
Andala
E O
EO
Kinoti
S N
SN
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007630:Kenya / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012424:Rural Population