title: [Blastocystis hominis: frequency of infection in ambulatory patients from the northern section of Santiago, Chile].
abstract: In July 1989-July 1990 period, a coproparasitological study of 6,162 ambulatory patients from the northern section of Santiago, was undertaken. Out of the total number of the studied individual, 88.6% were children, (51.4% females and 48.6% males). The global frequency of infection by B. hominis was 30.4%. In relation to age. Blastocystis hominis was found in: 13.1% of the group of children (1 month-2 years); 34.1% of the pre-school children, 45.4% in the school-children and 43.0% in the adults. B. hominis was frequently detected in association with other parasites and/or commensals, and observed alone in the 6.0% of the studied patients.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mercado
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Arias
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D016776:Blastocystis Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016845:Blastocystis hominis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002677:Chile / Q000453:epidemiology; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients
vernacular_title: Blastocystis hominis: frecuencia de infección en pacientes ambulatorios del sector norte de Santiago, Chile.