Prevalence and Intensity of Schistosoma Haematobium Infection in Six Villages of Upper Egypt

C. L. King Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, The University of Michigan, The High Institute of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, Egypt

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F. D. Miller Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, The University of Michigan, The High Institute of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, Egypt

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M. Hussein Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, The University of Michigan, The High Institute of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, Egypt

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R. Barkat Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, The University of Michigan, The High Institute of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, Egypt

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A. S. Monto Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, The University of Michigan, The High Institute of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, Egypt

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1982.31.320
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Volume 31: Issue 2
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320–327
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A cross-sectional survey for Schistosoma haematobium infection in 5,998 individuals, representing 31,803 persons in six rural villages of the Qena governorate, Upper Egypt, was completed. There were 2,223 persons (37.1%) excreting S. haematobium eggs identified by the nuclepore membrane filtration technique of a single urine specimen. Prevalence of infection ranged from 23.9% to 64.0% among the six villages. Quantitatively the overall geometric mean egg-count was 48.1 eggs/10 ml urine. A survey of proximal canals was conducted and 9 of 4,312 Bulinus snails were infected with schistosomes (0.21%). The stools of 2 of 507 adolescent males were positive for S. mansoni. No Biomphalaria snails were found. When these findings are compared to past studies, S. haematobium prevalence appears to have substantially increased.

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Copyright © 1982, by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1982
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28 Aug 1981
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Mar 1982
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