%0 Journal Article
%T Parasitismo en un precario de San Jos¨¦, Costa Rica
%A Hern¨¢ndez
%A Francisco
%A Le¨®n
%A Denis
%A Brenes
%A Ana
%A Robinson
%A Christofer
%J Revista Costarricense de Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%D 1998
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the last two national surveys on intestinal parasitosis realized in costa rica (1982 and 1996) showed an impressive improvement of intestinal helmintiasis, with rates lower than 5%. nevertheless, this problem is relegated to marginal communities, such as is demonstrated in this paper. stool samples of feces from 76 (56%) of the inhabitants of a squatter settlement near the tirib¨ª river, san jos¨¦, costa rica were analyzed by direct wet smears, kato, stoll, and agar culture method to looking for strongyloides. the forty-five percent of the people studied had at least one kind of intestinal parasites. the most frequently found parasites were entamoeba coli (27%), trichuris (18%), ascaris (15%). these data prove that the problem of intestinal parasitosis is ongoing and is masked in national surveys that show a fictitiously low rates for the country.
%K parasitismo intestinal
%K helmintiasis
%K protozoosis
%K comunidades precarias.
%U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0253-29481998000300014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en