Helminth infections among people using wastewater and human excreta in peri-urban agriculture and aquaculture in Hanoi, Vietnam

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 82-90

  Trang, Do Thuy ^a,b   Mølbak, Kåre ^c   Cam, Phung Dac ^a   Dalsgaard, Anders ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Excreta; Helminth infections; Vietnam; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH RISK; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PERIURBAN AREA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; WASTEWATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; COMPOST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FARMING SYSTEM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VIET NAM; WASTE WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SANITATION; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; TRICHURIASIS; VIETNAM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HANOI; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS; ASCARIS SP.; TRICHURIS; VERMES;

EID: 36249026530     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01945.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Amahmid O Bouhoum K (2005) Assessment of the health hazards associated with wastewater reuse: transmission of geohelminthic infections (Marrakech, Morocco). International Journal of Environmental Health Research 15, 127 133.
2. Blumenthal UJ, Cifuentes E, Bennett S, Quigley M Ruiz-Palacios G (2001) The risk of enteric infections associated with wastewater reuse: the effect of season and degree of storage of wastewater. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 95, 131 137.
3. Bouhoum K Schwartzbrod J (1998) Epidemiological study of intestinal helminthiasis in a Marrakech raw sewage spreading zone. Zentralblatt für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin 200, 553 561.
4. Bundy DAP, Cooper ES, Thompson DE, Didier JM Simmons I (1987) Epidemiology and population dynamics of Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura infection in the same community. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 81, 987 993.
5. Changhua L, Xiaorong Z Dongchuan Q et al. (1999) Epidemiology of human hookworm infections among adult villagers in Hejiang and Santai Counties, Sichuan Province, China. Acta Tropica 73, 243 249.
6. Curtis V Cairncross S (2003) Effect of washing hands with soaps on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 3, 275 281.
7. Directorate for Standards and Quality (1995) Water Quality - Surface Water Quality Standards: TCVN 5942-1995. Directorate for Standards and Quality, Hanoi.
8. Directorate for Standards and Quality (2000) Water quality - Water Quality Guidelines for Irrigation: TCVN 6773-2000. Directorate for Standards and Quality, Hanoi.
9. Edwards P (1992) Reuse of Human Waste in Aquaculture: A Technical Review. Water and Sanitation Report No. 2, The World Bank, Washington.
10. Edwards P (1996) Wastewater-fed aquaculture systems: status and prospects. Naga 19, 33 35.
11. Ensink JHJ, van der Hoek W, Matsuno Y, Munir S Aslam R (2002) Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri-urban Agriculture in Pakistan: Risk and Opportunities. Research Report 64, International Water Management Institute, Colombo.
12. Ensink JHJ, van der Hoek W, Mukhtar M, Tahir Z Amerasinghe FP (2005) High risk of hookworm infection among wastewater farmers in Pakistan. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 99, 809 818.
13. Feenstra S, Hussain R van der Hoek W (2000) Health Risks of Irrigation with Untreated Urban Wastewater in the Southern Punjab, Pakistan. IWMI Pakistan Report 107, International Water Management Institute, Lahore.
14. Habbari K, Tifnouti A, Bitton G Mandil A (1999) Geohelminthic infections associated with raw wastewater reuse for agricultural purposes in Beni-Mellal, Morocco. Parasitology International 48, 249 254.
15. Hien BTT, Trang DT, Scheutz F, Cam PD, Mølbak K Dalsgaard A (2007) Diarrheagenic E. coli and other causes of childhood diarrhoea: a case-control study in children living in a wastewater use area in Hanoi, Vietnam. Journal of Medical Microbiology 56, 1086 1096.
16. Hoan VQ (1996) Wastewater reuse through aquaculture in Hanoi: status and prospects. Master Degree Thesis, Asian Institute of Technology.
17. van der Hoek W, Hassan MU, Ensink JHJ et al. (2002) Urban Wastewater: A Valuable Resource for Agriculture - A Case Study from Haroonabad, Pakistan. IWMI Research Report 63, International Water Management Institute, Colombo.
18. van der Hoek W, De NV Konradsen F et al. (2003) Current status of soil-transmitted helminths in Vietnam. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 34 (Suppl. 1 1 11.
19. Humphries DL, Stephenson LS Pearce EJ et al. (1997) The use of human faeces for fertilizer is associated with increased intensity of hookworm infection in Vietnamese women. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 91, 518 520.
20. Katzenelson E, Buium I Shuval HI (1976) Risk of communicable disease infection associated with wastewater irrigation in agricultural settlements. Science 194, 944 946.
21. Leschen W, Little D Bunting S (2005) Urban aquatic production. Urban Agriculture Magazine 14, 1 7.
22. Needham C, Thi Kim H Viet Hoa N et al. (1998) Epidemiology of soil-transmitted nematode infections in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam. Tropical Medicine and International Health 3, 904 912.
23. Olsen A, Samuelsen H Onyango-Ouma W (2001) A study of risk factors for intestinal helminth infections using epidemiological and anthropological approaches. Journal of Biosocial Science 33, 569 584.
24. Olsen A, Thuan LK, Murrell DK, Dalsgaard A, Johansen MV De NV (2006) Cross-sectional parasitological survey for helminth infections among fish farmers in Nghe An province, Vietnam. Acta Tropica 100, 199 204.
25. Peasey A (2000) Human exposure to Ascaris infection through wastewater reuse in irrigation and its public health significance. PhD Thesis, University of London.
26. Phuc P, Konradsen F, Phuong P, Cam PD Dalsgaard A (2006) Practice of using human excreta as fertilizer and implications for health in Nghean province, Vietnam. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 37, 222 229.
27. Shuval HI, Adin A, Fattal B, Rawitz E Yekutiel P (1986) Wastewater Irrigation in Developing Countries: Health Effects and Technical Solutions. World Bank Technical Paper Number 51, The World Bank, Washington.
28. Siebe C Cifuentes E (1995) Environmental impact of wastewater irrigation in central Mexico: an overview. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 5, 161 173.
29. Trang DT, Mølbak K, Dalsgaard A, Cam PD Hoa NV (2006a) Impacts of wastewater reuse in agriculture and aquaculture in Hanoi, Vietnam. In : Southeast Asian Water Environment (eds S Ohgaki, K Fukushi, H Katayama, S Takizawa C Polprasert) IWA Publishing, London, pp. 167 174.
30. Trang DT, van der Hoek W, Cam PD et al. (2006b) Low risk for helminth infection in wastewater-fed rice cultivation in Vietnam. Journal of Water and Health 4, 321 331.
31. Trang DT, Mølbak K, Cam PD Dalsgaard A (2007a) Incidence of and risk factors for skin ailments among farmers working with wastewater-fed agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 101, 502 510.
32. Trang DT, Hien BTT, Mølbak K, Cam PD Dalsgaard A (2007b) The epidemiology and aetiology of diarrhoeal diseases in adults engaged in wastewater-fed agriculture and aquaculture in Hanoi, Vietnam. Tropical Medicine and International Health 12 (Suppl. 2 22 32.
33. Verle P, Kongs A De NV et al. (2003) Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in northern Vietnam. Tropical Medicine and International Health 8, 961 964.
34. WHO (2001) Basic Laboratory Methods in Medical Parasitology. WHO, Geneva.
35. WHO (2006a) Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater - Volume 2: Wastewater Use in Agriculture. WHO, Geneva.
36. WHO (2006b) Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater - Volume 3: Wastewater Use in Aquaculture. WHO, Geneva.