title: Parasitosis: a study among Nepali children in the district of Darjeeling.
abstract: A cross-sectional study carried out among 370 school-going children of the Nepali community, aged 5-10 years, in the Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district revealed the prevalence of parasitic infestation to be 51.4 per cent of which 28.2% and 23.2% had single and multiple parasitism respectively. In the group of single parasitism, A. lumbricoides was the commonest infestation (31.73%) and in multiple parasitisms, A. lumbricoides and T. Trichiura combination was found to be the most prevalent (36.05%). A significant statistical association was observed in the decrease of worm infestation rate among children with the increasing educational status of their mothers. The study also revealed that 19.73% and 18.91% of the mothers had no knowledge about mode of transmission and prevention of worm infestation respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata 700014.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ram
authors.forename: Manasi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: Manas
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sarkar
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Manidipa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D009390:Nepal / Q000208:ethnology; D015995:Prevalence