Schistosoma mansoni infection prevalence and associated risk factors among schoolchildren in Demba Girara,Damot Woide District of Wolaita Zone,Southern Ethiopia

作     者：Bereket Alemayehu Zewdneh Tomass 

作者机构：Wolaita Sodo UniversityCollege of Natural and Computational SciencesDepartment of BiologyBiomedical Science Division 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》 (亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第8卷第6期

页      面：458-464页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100202[医学-儿科学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Wolaita Sodo University 

主　　题：Schistosoma mansoni Parasite Schoolchildren Wolaita Zone Ethiopia 

摘      要：Objective:To establish the prevalence and associated risk factors of Schistosoma mansoni(***) infection among schoolchildren at a village in Wolaita *** Ethiopia,Methods:A cross-sectional study was carried out among primary schoolchildren.A total of 384 randomly selected study subjects provided stool samples for parasitological examination by Kato-Katz and Formalin-Ether concentration *** parasitological data were obtained from Health Center Laboratory to see the previous history *** infection in the *** analysis was performed using SPSS software version ***:From the total children examined.85.4% were found positive for at least one helminth *** infection(81.3% ) was the most prevalent and the prevalence of STH was 32% ..Moderate and heavy infection intensities were only observed in S,mansoni *** overall heavy intensity of infection was 56.4% .Contact to Bisarc stream was the most important factor for *** infection(OR 3.9) followed by herding cattle near the stream(OR2.527).Males were twice more likely to get the infection than females(OR 1.923).Analysis of secondary parasitological data showed that *** infection was a leading helminthic infection over the past ***:The present study found a higher intensity and prevalence of *** infection in a rural village of Wolaita ***,appropriate integrated control and prevention measures need to be implemented in the study area.