title: [Intestinal parasites in inhabitants of Wrocław and Wałbrzych].
abstract: In the period 1990-1997 several thousand patients from Wrocław and Wałbrzych hospitals as well as inhabitants of Wrocław city were examined for intestinal parasites. The presence of parasites was noted in 12.3% of 2173 patients from the District Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Wrocław, 3.2% of 599 from Wałbrzych Hospital and 39.3% (mostly Enterobius vermicularis) of 746 ambulatory examined persons in the Private Analytical Laboratory in Wrocław. Among the intestinal protozoa the most frequent was Giardia intestinalis (from 5.7 to 18.1%) and Entamoeba coli (0.5-0.6%); the remaining amoebas (E. histolytica, E. hartmanni, E. polecki and Endolimax nana) as well as Chilomonas mesnili was present only in single cases. Enterobiosis was observed in nearly half of the total number of examined children (1808); the most rarely found helminths were Opisorchis felineus (! Adult patient), Strongyloides stercoralis (2) and Trichuris trichiura (8); Taenia saginata was found in 56 patients, which constituted 1.6% of the total number of examined cases and Ascaris lumbricoides in 40 (1.2%).
authors.affiliation: Zakład Parazytologii Ogólnej Instytutu Mikrobiologii UWr, 51-148 Wrocław., ul. Przybyszewskiego 63/77.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lonc
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okulewicz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kopczyńska-Maślej
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zaródzka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000656:Amoeba / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D004757:Enterobius / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005872:Giardia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006376:Helminths / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology