Transmission and natural regulation of infection with Ascaris lumbricoides in a rural community in China

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 252-258

  Peng, Weidong ^a   Zhou, Xianmin ^a   Cui, Xiaomin ^a   Crompton, D W T ^a,b   Whitehead, R R ^a,b   Xiong, Jiangqin ^a,c   Wu, Haigeng ^a,c   Yang, Yang ^a,c   Wu, Weixing ^a,c   Xu, Kaiwu ^a,c   Yan, Yongxing ^a,c  

^a JIANGXI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Nanchang Railway Central Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; FECAL EGG PLANT; PARASITE INFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; WARM INFECTION;

ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHINA; EGG LAYING; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REINFECTION; RURAL AREA; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL;

CHINA;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CESTODA;

EID: 15144342684     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284479     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. ANDERSON, R. M. 1986. The population dynamics and epidemiology of intestinal nematode infections. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 80: 686-692.
2. _, AND R. M. MAY. 1985. Helminth infections of humans: mathematical models, population dynamics and control. Advances in Parasitology 24: 1-101.
3. _, AND G. F. MEDLEY. 1985. Community control of helminth infection of man by mass and selective chemotherapy. Parasitology 90: 629-660.
4. BUNDY, D. A. P., AND E. S. COOPER. 1988. The evidence for predisposition to trichuriasis in humans: Comparison of institutional and community studies. Annals of tropical Medicine and Parasitology 82: 251-256.
5. _, _. D. E. THOMPSON, J. M. DIDIER, R. M. ANDERSON, AND I. SIMMONS. 1987. Predisposition to Trichuris trichiura infection in humans. Epidemiology and Infection 98: 65-71.
6. CHAN, L., S. P. KAN, AND D. A. P. BUNDY. 1992. The effect of repeated chemotherapy on age-related predisposition to Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura. Parasitology 104: 371-377.
7. CROMPTON, D. W. T. 1989. Prevalence of ascariasis. In Ascariasis and its prevention and control, D. W. T. Crompton, M. C. Nesheim, and Z. S. Pawlowski (eds.). Taylor and Francis, London, U.K., p. 45-69.
8. HALL, A., K. ANWAR, AND A. M. TOMKINS. 1992. Intensity of reinfection with Ascaris lumbricoides and its implications for parasite control. The Lancet 339: 1252-1264.
9. HASWELL-ELKINS, M. R., D. B. ELKINS AND, R. M. ANDERSON. 1987. Evidence for predisposition in humans to infection with Ascaris, hookworm, Enterobius and Trichuris in a South Indian fishing community. Parasitology 95: 323-337.
10. KIGHTLINGER, L. K., J. R. SEED, AND M. B. KIGHTLINGER. 1995. The epidemiology of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm in children in the Ranomafana rainforest, Madagascar. Journal of Parasitology 81: 159-69.
11. PENG, W., X. ZHOU, X. GUI, D. W. T. CROMPTON, R. R. WHITEHEAD, J. XING, H. WU, J. PENG, Y. YANG, W. WU, K. XU, AND Y. YAN. 1996. Ascaris, people and pigs in a rural community of Jiangxi Province, China. Parasitology 113: 545-557.
12. WHO. 1987. Prevention and control of intestinal parasitic infections. Technical Report Series, No. 749, Geneva, WHO.