title: Intestinal parasitic infections in hosted Saharawi children.
abstract: Literatures on intestinal parasitic infections in Saharawi children were scarce and   distributed in non parasitological journals. This was the first article that specifically highlighted   on the prevalence of these infections in 270 Saharawi children aged from 6 to 12 years hosted   in Spain. Six different intestinal parasites were identified in this study and 78, 46, 40, 24, 13   and 5 were positive for Giardia lamblia (29%), Entamoeba coli (17%), Blastocystis hominis   (15%), Endolimax nana (9%), Hymenolepis nana (5%) and Enterobius vermicularis (2%),   respectively. Mixed intestinal parasitic infections were seen in 12 (4.4%) studied children. Six   (2.2%) double infections for G. lamblia and B. hominis were seen in these children while in   four (1.5%) had G. lamblia and H. nana. Triple intestinal parasitic infections of G. lamblia, B.   hominis and H. nana were observed in two (0.7%) of the children studied. In the other hand,   about 14.8% of the studied children had a mild anaemia and 15.5 and 16.6% had iron deficiency   and eosinophilia, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Observatory of Nutrition and Food Safety in Developing Countries, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia, Av. Vicent Andres Estelles s/n. 46100 Burjassot, Spain. jose.soriano@uv.es
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Soriano
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Domènech
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mañes
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Soriano
mesh_terms: D000352:Africa, Northern / Q000453:epidemiology; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D060085:Coinfection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D010271:Parasites / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015995:Prevalence; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology