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Incidence of intestinal parasites in a tropical area of Brazil Figures based on the examination of the stools of 2,500 patients

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Conclusions

The commonest protozoa found by stool examinations of two thousand five hundred patients were E. coli (twenty-four and eight-tenths per cent), E. histolytica (ten and four-tenths per cent), G. intestinalis (ten per cent) and C. mesnili (six and two-tenths per cent).

The most frequent helminths in the above two thousand five hundred patients were T. trichiura

Metazoa

Infected Patients

Percentage

Ascaris lumbricoides

489

19.5

Necator americanus

366

14.6

Trichuris trichiura

513

20.5

Strongyloides stercoralis

217

8.6

Enterobius vermicularis

73

2.9

Taenia, sp

23

0.9

Hymenolepis nana

1

0.04

Schistosoma mansoni

100

4.0

(twenty and a half per cent), A. lumbricoides (nineteen and a half per cent), N. americanus (fourteen and six-tenths per cent), S. stercoralis (eight and sixtenths per cent) and S. mansoni (four per cent).

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    J. Romeu Cançado

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Cançado, J.R. Incidence of intestinal parasites in a tropical area of Brazil Figures based on the examination of the stools of 2,500 patients. Jour. D. D. 10, 98 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02996945

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