%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalencia de parasitismo intestinal y situaci¨®n nutricional en escolares y adolescentes de Tunja
%A MANRIQUE ABRIL
%A FRED GUSTAVO
%A SUESC¨²N CARRERO
%A SANDRA HELENA
%J CES Medicina
%D 2011
%I Universidad CES
%X objective: to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitism and nutritional status in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 enrolled in public and private schools from urban tunja, colombia. materials and methods: this is a prevalence study made in 507 schoolchildren of tunja, included from february to december 2005. fecal sample was taken; also social, demographic and anthropometric data. tables of frequency and nutritional indicators were calculated by following the anthropometry who tables. results: the prevalence of intestinal parasites was 89.7 %. blastocistis hominis occurred in 67,9% of the children, entamoeba histolytica / entamoeba dispar in 8.66 %, giardia intestinalis, 7.82 %; trichuris trichiura, with 0.84 % and fasciola hepatica, with 0.28 %. hemoglobin showed normal average values for children and adolescents (hb: 14.7 ¡À-0.82 g/dl and 15.45¡À1.18 g/dl), respectively. chronic malnutrition was found in 21.6 % for boys and 34.3% for girls), 16.7 % of boys and 11.1 % of girls were overweight conclusions: given the current situation exist poliparasitism in children of tunja, and indicators of acute and chronic malnutrition are higher than the national total. according to the law , must be protected and campaigns should be made to eradicate these two scourges.
%K parasites
%K malnutrition
%K child nutrition disorders
%K adolescent nutrition
%K tunja.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-87052011000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en