Prevalence of Intestinal Parasite among School Children of Bharatpokhari V.D.C., Kaski, Nepal

Jaiswal, Suresh

doi:10.9734/bmrj/2014/8367

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“…Although more than one-third of the children were infected in this study with any one type of parasites, the result is found to be less prevalent on parasitic infection than on a research was done by Magar et al, 2011 at Kathmandu valley which was 43.3% and higher than observed by Khanal et al, on 2011 at Kathmandu (17.6%) and Chandrashekhar et al, at Kaski (21.3%) on 2005 and Gyawali et al, at 2009 at Dharan (22.5%). This investigation showed the report of the very high positive rate of intestinal parasitic infections according to previous research among children elsewhere in the country (Mukhiya et al, 2012;Jaiswal et al, 2013). In Nepal highest prevalence published till now is 81.94% on 2003 among healthy children of Lalitpur district by Shrestha and the overall prevalence of our study was less than this report.…”

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Parasitic Infections among Children of Squatter Community in Dharan Municipality, Sunsari, Nepal

Chongbang¹,

Dongol²,

Chakrawarti³

et al. 2016

Int J Appl Sci Biotechnol

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Background and Objective: Children of squatter community are more prone to many infections and epidemiological studies provide to develop suitable preventive plans. Thus, the main objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence of parasitic infections among children of Squatter Community of Dharan Municipality. Methodology: Altogether 184 stool samples were collected from June 2014 to January 2015. The samples were examined using direct microscopy by saline wet mount technique in the microbiology laboratory of Sunsari Technical College, Dharan. Results: The overall prevalence of intestinal parasites was found to be 41.4% with male children more infected (45.8%) than female children (37.5%). Children between 4-8 years of age were most infected (48.1%). Among 4 species of parasites detected Ascaris lumbricoides (18.1%) was the commonest helminths and Giardia lamblia (74.02%) was the commonest protozoa. Positive rate was higher in Dalits (59.7%, 43/72) and the least in Tibeto-Burman(27.1%, 22/81) (p<0.05) ethnic groups.52.5% of children not using water and 33.6% of children using bucket water at toilet after defecation were infected. Children using soap for hand washing after defecation were less infected (32.02%) than other children (55.1%). Children taking the anti-parasitic drug in last six months had significantly low positive rate (9.3%) than others (51.7%) (p<0.05). Conclusion: High prevalence of parasitic infection was observed among children in Squatter community of Dharan Municipality. Thus, health education along with infection management actions and the awareness programs for sanitation improvements are required to reduce the parasitosis.

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Parasitic Infections among Children of Squatter Community in Dharan Municipality, Sunsari, Nepal

Chongbang¹,

Dongol²,

Chakrawarti³

et al. 2016

Int J Appl Sci Biotechnol

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“…The present study recorded higher prevalence as compared with the study of different authors [9,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. The high prevalence of the intestinal parasites may be attributed to the lack of health education, hand washing behavior, farming profession and non-vegetarian food habit.…”

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Intestinal parasites in Meche community in relation to their socio-economic status

Dhakal

Subedi

2019

Janaki Med. Coll. J. Med. Sci.

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Background and Objectives: Intestinal parasites still establishes one of the important causes of public health problem in world, especially in developing countries like Nepal. The aim of the study is to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites in Meche community of Jalthal Village Development Committee of Jhapa district in relation to their socio-economic status. Material and Methods: Study was carried out during June to July 2017 in Meche community of Jalthal Village Development Committee of Jhapa district. A total of 150 human stool samples were randomly collected and examined using direct smear and concentration methods (sedimentation and flotation technique). Results: Among total samples the prevalence of intestinal parasites in Meche community was 27.33%. Prevalence rate in females were higher 32.47% than in males 21.91%. There was no significant difference in the distribution of parasites between male and female (χ2=1.6022, df=1, p value=0.2056). The prevalence of the parasites was maximum in the age group 21- 40 years (47.22%). Altogether 5 species of the intestinal parasites were detected. Among them Ascaris lumbricoides (19.33%) topped the list followed by Taenia solium (2.67%), Hookworm (2.67%), Entamoeba coli (2.67%) and Trichuris trichiura (2%). Conclusion: The high prevalence of infection in community seems directly related to un-hygienic living condition, unsafe drinking water, unhygienic food, lack of health education, poor sanitary condition and low socio-economic status help to increase the burden of the infection in the community.

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“…Figure shows the flowchart of study selection. Thirty‐nine studies were included in the analyses . The distribution of study variables in all 39 studies is presented in Appendix II.…”

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Trends in prevalence of soil‐transmitted helminth and major intestinal protozoan infections among school‐aged children in Nepal

Kunwar

Acharya

Karki

2016

Tropical Med Int Health

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Abstractobjectives To assess the trends in prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs), Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia among school-aged children in Nepal between 1990 and 2015.methods Systematic literature search in PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Google Scholar and local peer-reviewed journals for papers published between 1990 and December 2015. We conducted metaregression and meta-analyses to pool studies where applicable.results Thirty-nine studies that examined a total of 14 729 stool specimens were included in the meta-analyses. The metaregression of prevalence of hookworms, roundworm, and whipworm showed a significantly decreasing trend over time. conclusions We observed a sharp decrease in prevalence of STHs among school-aged children in Nepal in the past decade with prevalences dropping below 5% for STHs with no variation in prevalence in rural and urban areas. However, the prevalence of E. histolytica and G. lamblia remained stable over time. These results suggest that school-based deworming programmes rolled out during the study period had an observable impact on prevalence of STHs.

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Prevalence of Intestinal Parasite among School Children of Bharatpokhari V.D.C., Kaski, Nepal

Cited by 7 publications

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Parasitic Infections among Children of Squatter Community in Dharan Municipality, Sunsari, Nepal

Parasitic Infections among Children of Squatter Community in Dharan Municipality, Sunsari, Nepal

Intestinal parasites in Meche community in relation to their socio-economic status

Trends in prevalence of soil‐transmitted helminth and major intestinal protozoan infections among school‐aged children in Nepal

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