2015
DOI: 10.4314/tjpr.v14i12.21
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Deworming Campaign in Eastern Afghanistan – Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Adoption of Treatment Strategy

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“…The inhabitants of Afghanistan are an example of a community with a high prevalence of intestinal multiple infections. It seems that single diagnostic methods and single-dose chemotherapy (antiparasitic treatment with albendazole 400 mg or mebendazole 500 mg, common in the Third World) may prove ineffective in the elimination of intestinal parasites in the local population [19]. The application of multiple testing methods can improve not only the detection rates of infected patients (in this study by 11.2%) but can also help to eliminate multiple co-infections with helminths and protozoa using the right treatment.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…The inhabitants of Afghanistan are an example of a community with a high prevalence of intestinal multiple infections. It seems that single diagnostic methods and single-dose chemotherapy (antiparasitic treatment with albendazole 400 mg or mebendazole 500 mg, common in the Third World) may prove ineffective in the elimination of intestinal parasites in the local population [19]. The application of multiple testing methods can improve not only the detection rates of infected patients (in this study by 11.2%) but can also help to eliminate multiple co-infections with helminths and protozoa using the right treatment.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…Studies performed by the scientists from different international military medical services in 2002 and researchers from WHO in 2003 showed high rates of parasitic infections among inhabitants of Afghanistan (Scheid and Thoma 2004 ; Gabrielli et al 2005 ). More recently, our team performed microscopic examinations for intestinal parasitic infections on a large number of inhabitants, especially schoolchildren, of Ghazni Province (Korzeniewski et al 2014 , 2015a , b , 2016 , 2017 ). Faecal material was collected by Polish medical staff and diagnosticians working at the Forward Operating Base in Ghazni, with the aim of detecting and controlling intestinal parasitic infections in the local population.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The aim of this action was to prepare the scheme of deworming for the local population. Based on a microscopic screening study of this material, we showed a high prevalence of intestinal parasites in these populations (Korzeniewski et al 2014 , 2015a , b , 2016 , 2017 ). Examination of 777 children hospitalised in the Ghazni Province Hospital performed in 2012–2013 showed the presence of intestinal parasitic infection in 40.2% of them, with a predominance of A. lumbricoides and G. intestinalis (17.2 and 16.7%) (Korzeniewski et al 2014 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 86%