Urogenital schistosomiasis and associated determinant factors among senior high school students in the Dutsin-Ma and Safana Local Government Areas of Katsina State, Nigeria

作     者：Tolulope Ebenezer Atalabi Umar Lawal Francis Omowonuola Akinluyi 

作者机构：Department of Biological SciencesFaculty of ScienceFederal UniversityDutsin-MaP.M.B.5001Dutsin-MaKatsina StateNigeria Department of Remote Sensing and GISSchool of Earth and Mineral SciencesFederal University of TechnologyAkureOndo StateNigeria 

出 版 物：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病（英文）)

年 卷 期：2016年第5卷第1期

页      面：609-621页

核心收录：

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100210[医学-外科学(含：普外、骨外、泌尿外、胸心外、神外、整形、烧伤、野战外)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Prevalence Intensity Urogenital schistosomiasis Risk─factors Katsina State Nigeria 

摘      要：Background:Human schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease of poverty caused by the cercariae of digenetic trematodes of the genus *** disease is a major source of morbidity and mortality in 77 low-and middle-income countries in the tropics where 700 million people are at *** a bid to provide relevant epidemiological information to boost control of urogenital schistosomiasis at the state level in Nigeria,we conducted this study with the aim of investigating the disease’s prevalence and intensity,and the determinant factors responsible for its ***:Data on risk factors were obtained from a total of 645 students aged 12─25 years using well-designed *** were collected between 09:45 and 14:00 in universal ***10μl centrifuged sample was examined for the eggs of *** using Motic®(Binocular)Light Microscope(model S-10-P)with a x10 *** infection intensity was recorded as number of eggs per 10 ml of urine *** data were entered into Microsoft Excel 2010 and analyzed using Epi Info™*** among variables were determined using the chi square test and bivariate and multivariate logistic ***:Prevalence of urogenital schistosomiasis was 30.54%among the study population,with a mean infection intensity of 30.27 eggs/10 ml of *** and average intensity were higher in males(28.37%and 32.21 eggs/10 ml of urine respectively)than in females(2.17%and 5 eggs/10 ml of urine respectively).Water contact activities(χ^(2)=29.031,P=0.0000),sex(male)[χ^(2)=109.82;P0.0001],location(Dutsin─Ma)[χ^(2)=7.19;P=0.0073],age group 18-20(χ^(2)=4.819,P=0.0281),altitude(531─560 m)[χ^(2)=6.84,p=0.0089],fathers doing other brown─collar jobs(χ^(2)=8.449,P=0.0037)and mothers’occupation(χ^(2)=9.470,P=0.0021)were found to be significantly associated with urogenital *** were six times more likely to be infected with the cercariae of *** compared to girls[AOR