Intestinal parasites and malnutrition cause high morbidity among children in developing countries. A study to establish the associations between intestinal parasitism and undernourishment was undertaken in a village in the Colombian Amazon region. Two hundred thirty seven children each provided four stool samples for parasitic analysis. Anthropometric indices were calculated based on height and weight (HAZ), weight and age (WAZ) and height and weight (WHZ) using the international growth standards recommended by the World Health Organization. Of the 237 children, 86.1% were carrying parasites, 54% had 2 or more parasites, 30% were stunted, 10% were underweight, and 2.5% were wasting. HAZ and WAZ indices were inversely related to age and numb...
Children in rural areas experience the interrelated problems of poor growth, anemia and parasitic in...
Introduction. Knowledge of the nutritional state of the children is an valuable indicator of the gen...
Introduction: reports on the hematological profile of Colombian children living in malarious areas a...
Introduction. Studies on intestinal intestinal parasitism in children under 2 years of age have rare...
Background: malnutrition, intestinal parasites and anemia are serious health problems; they share ri...
El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la relación que existe entre la parasitosis intestinal y la d...
Background Mild-to-moderate malnutrition affects the lives of approximately one-quarter of the devel...
The purpose of this research is to characterize the prevalence of intestinal parasites in children b...
The Program for the Control of Intestinal Parasites and Nutrition was designed to intervene in small...
Estudio para determinar la relación entre el estado nutricional, condición socioeconómica y la paras...
Objective: to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites and risk factors of children aged 0 t...
An analytical prevalence study was carried out to determine the current prevalence of intestinal par...
BERTO MOREANO, César Gabriel, CAHUANA APARCO, Judith, CÁRDENAS GALLEGOS, Jesús Kevin [et al.]. Nivel...
Intestinal parasitism (IP) is still a health problem in Central America and Caribbean Countries. An...
Las infecciones parasitarias intestinales son un problema importante de salud pública en Colombia. L...
Children in rural areas experience the interrelated problems of poor growth, anemia and parasitic in...
Introduction. Knowledge of the nutritional state of the children is an valuable indicator of the gen...
Introduction: reports on the hematological profile of Colombian children living in malarious areas a...
Introduction. Studies on intestinal intestinal parasitism in children under 2 years of age have rare...
Background: malnutrition, intestinal parasites and anemia are serious health problems; they share ri...
El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la relación que existe entre la parasitosis intestinal y la d...
Background Mild-to-moderate malnutrition affects the lives of approximately one-quarter of the devel...
The purpose of this research is to characterize the prevalence of intestinal parasites in children b...
The Program for the Control of Intestinal Parasites and Nutrition was designed to intervene in small...
Estudio para determinar la relación entre el estado nutricional, condición socioeconómica y la paras...
Objective: to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites and risk factors of children aged 0 t...
An analytical prevalence study was carried out to determine the current prevalence of intestinal par...
BERTO MOREANO, César Gabriel, CAHUANA APARCO, Judith, CÁRDENAS GALLEGOS, Jesús Kevin [et al.]. Nivel...
Intestinal parasitism (IP) is still a health problem in Central America and Caribbean Countries. An...
Las infecciones parasitarias intestinales son un problema importante de salud pública en Colombia. L...
Children in rural areas experience the interrelated problems of poor growth, anemia and parasitic in...
Introduction. Knowledge of the nutritional state of the children is an valuable indicator of the gen...
Introduction: reports on the hematological profile of Colombian children living in malarious areas a...