title: [Uncinariasis in younger infants].
abstract: In order to determine the main clinical and laboratory manifestations associated with the infestation by an uncinaria during the first year of life, 42 children were studied from a group hospitalized between the years 1980 and 1985 in whom the main diagnosis at their time of leave from the hospital was parasitosis. Over 31 patients (74%) showed some degree of malnutrition, and severe in 24 of them (57% of the total). Clinical manifestations were mainly related to anemia (paleness, lack of air) and active intestinal bleeding (enterorrhagia, melena). Among the laboratory findings, 80% of the patients were shown to have anemia and in 24% of them, their hemoglobin levels were less than 5 g/dL, in more than half the anemia was normocytic normochromic. Also included are particularities concerning uncinariasis in the breast-feeding infant and some differences with the infection in the adult.
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Pediatría, Universidad Nacional, Asunción, Paraguay.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bestard
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bellasai
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Chamorro
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Garcete
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zacur
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Richer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paredes
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arbo-Sosa
mesh_terms: D000724:Ancylostomiasis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009332:Necatoriasis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Uncinariasis en el lactante menor.