Intestinal parasitic infection and associated risk factors, among children presenting at outpatient clinics in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 583-591

  Maia, M M M ^a   Fausto, M A ^b   Vieira, E L M ^a   Benetton, M L F N ^c   Carneiro, M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMEBIASIS; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOLIMAX; ENDOLIMAX NANA; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTPATIENT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ENDOLIMAX NANA; ENTAMOEBA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

EID: 73449089068     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349809X12459740922417     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Anon. (1992). Perfil Estatístico de Crianças e Mães no Brasil: Aspectos Nutricionais. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística.
2. Anon. (1977). National Center for Health Statistics Growth Curves for Children Birth-18 years. Washington, DC: Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
3. Anon. (2007). Situação Mundial da Infância in 2007. Brasília: United Nations Children's Fund.
4. Araú jo, C. F. & Fernandez, C. L. (2005a). Incidência de enteroparasitoses em localidades atendidas pelo comando da aeronáutica no estado do Amazonas. Revista Medica da Aeronáutica do Brasil, 55, 40-46.
5. Araú jo, C. F. & Fernandez, C. L. (2005b). Prevalencia de parasitas intestinais na cidade de Eirunepé, Amazonas. Revista Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 38, 69.
6. Benetton, M. L. F. N., Gonçalves, A. V., Meneghini, M. E. F., Silva, E. F. & Carneiro M. (2005). Risk factors for infection by the Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar complex: an epidemiological study conducted in outpatient clinics in the city of Manaus, Amazon region, Brazil. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99, 532-540.
7. Bó ia, M. N., Motta, L. P., Salazar, M. S. P., Mutis, M. P. S., Coutinho, R. B. A. & Coura, J. R. (1999). Estudo das parasitoses intestinais e da infecção chagásica no município de Novo Airão, estado do Amazonas, Brasil. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 15, 497-504.
8. Braga, L. L., Mendonça, Y., Paiva, C. A., Sales, A., Cavalcante, A. L. M. & Mann, B. J. (1998). Seropositivity for intestinal colonization with Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar in individuals in northeastern Brazil. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36, 3044-3045.
9. Carneiro, F. F., Cifuentes, E., Tellez-Rojo, M. A. & Romieu, I. (2002). The risk of Ascaris lumbricoides infection in children as an environmental health indicator to guide preventive activities in Caparaó and Alto Caparaó , Brazil. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 80, 40-46.
10. Ferraroni, M. J. R., Marinho, H. A., Nagahama, D., Silva, N. B. & Castro, J. (1991). Prevalência de enteropatias na cidade de Manaus. Journal of Pediatrics, 67, 14-28.
11. Gupta, M. C. (1990). Effect of Ascaris upon nutritional status of children. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 14, 189-191.
12. Hosmer Jr, D. W. & Lemeshow, S. (1989). Applied Logistic Regression. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
13. Hurtado-Guerrero, A. F., Alencar, F. H. & Hurtado-Guerrero, J. C. (2005). Ocorrência de enteroparasitas na população geronte de Nova Olinda do norte Amazonas, Brasil. Acta Amazonica, 35, 487-490.
14. Junqueira, M. I. M. & Queiroz, E. F. O. (2002). Relationship between protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A, and parasitoses in children living in Brasilia. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 35, 133-141.
15. Lauritsen, J. M. (Ed.) (2008). EpiData Data Entry, Data Management and Basic Statistical Analysis System. Odense, Denmark: EpiData Association.
16. Maia, M. M. M., Fausto, M. A., Vieira, E. L. M., Benetton, M. L. F. & Carneiro, M. (2008). The prevalence of malnutrition and its risk factors in children attending outpatient in the city of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion, 58, 234-240.
17. Nematian, J., Nematian, E., Gholamrezanezhad, A. & Asgari, A. A. (2004). Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and their relation with socio-economic factors and hygienic habits in Tehran primary school students. Acta Tropica, 92, 179-186.
18. Neumann, C. G., Gewa, C. & Bwibo, N. O. (2004). Child nutrition in developing countries. Pediatric Annals, 33, 658-674.
19. Newman, R. D., Moore, S. R., Lima, A. A., Nataro, J. P., Guerrant, R. L. & Sears, C. I. (2001). A longitudinal study of Giardia duodenalis infection in northeast Brazilian children. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 6, 624-634.
20. Okyay, P., Ertug, S., Gultekin, B., Onen, O. & Beser, E. (2004). Intestinal parasites prevalence and related factors in school children, a western city sample-Turkey. BMC Public Health, 4, 64.
21. Ortiz, D., Afonso, C., Hagel, I., Rodriguez, O., Ortiz, C., Palenque, M. & Lynch, Y. N. R. (2000). Influencia de las helmintiasis y el estado nutricional en la inmunidad de niños venezolanos. Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica, 8, 156-163.
22. Rabe-Hesketh, S. & Skrondal, A. (2005). Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. College Station, TX: Stata Press.
23. Silva, R. R., Silva, C. A. M., Pereira, C. A. J., Nicolato, R. L. C., Negrao-Correa, D., Lamonier, J. A. & Carneiro, M. (2009). Association between nutritional status, environmental and socio-economic factors and Giardia lamblia infection among children aged 6-71 months in Brazil. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103, 512-519.
24. Smith, H. M., DeKaminsky, R. G., Niwas, S., Soto, R. J. & Jolly, P. E. (2001). Prevalence and intensity of infections of Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura and associated socio-demographic variables in four rural Honduran communities. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 96, 303-314.
25. Szklo, M. & Nieto, F. J. (2000). Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen.
26. Teixeira, J. C. & Heller, L. (2006). Impact of water supply, domiciliary water reservoirs and sewage on faeco-orally transmitted parasitic diseases in children residing in poor areas in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Epidemiology and Infection, 134, 694-698.
27. Vallada, E. P. (1993). Manual de Exames de Fezes-Coprologia e Parasitologia. São Paulo, Brazil: Atheneu.
28. World Health Organization (1995). Physical Status: the Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry. Technical Report Series No. 854. Geneva: WHO.