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Anales de la Facultad de Medicina

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Abstract

OUISPE-JULI, Cender Udai; CHIARA-COILA, Yatsen Socrates  and  MORENO­-LOAIZA, Oscar. High prevalence of Blastocystis spp. in children from a periurban school. An. Fac. med. [online]. 2016, vol.77, n.4, pp.393-396. ISSN 1025-5583.

Introduction. Intestinal parasitosis is a serious public health problem in developing countries, and blastocystosis is an emerging parasitosis. Objectives. To determine the prevalence of infection by Blastocystis spp. and other intestinal parasites in children from a periurban school. Design. Observational and transversal study. Location. A schoollocated in the district of Yura in Arequipa, Peru. Participants. 83 children between 4 and 8 years old. Interventions. Stool samples obtained from the children were analyzed with the modified Telemann method; a descriptive analysis was done by calculating frequency. Main outcome measures. Presence of the intestinal parasite. Results. The prevalence of Blastocystis spp. was 81.9% (68/83), the overall prevalence of parasites was 96.4% (80/83), and 80P/o (67/83) had more than one type of parasite. Conclusions. There was a high prevalence of Blastocystis spp. and other intestinal parasites in the sample studied. There was also a high polyparasitism in the school population studied. This is the first study in this community.

Keywords : Blastocystis Infections; Parasitic Diseases; Child; Peru.

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