Some helminthozoonotic infections in Zambia.
Afr J Med Med Sci, 1978/3;7(1):1-7.
PMID: 97951
Abstract
Parasitic infections constitute an important group of zoonoses. Stool examination of inpatients, medical examinees and out-patients in a sub-tropical environment established that Inermicapsifer madagascariensis and Schistosoma mattheei are occasionally anthropozoonotic in Zambia. Strongyloides fülleborni, a species normally parasitic in primates is not uncommon in man; whether it is anthropozoonotic or a parasite well adapted to man in this part of Africa needs further investigation. The finding of unidentified spiruroid ova was considered to be due to a spurious infection. The need for the differentiation of such organisms from those commonly infecting man is emphasized especially since the literature on such a subject is so sparse in the country and on the continent.
MeSH terms
Adult; Animals; Cestode Infections; Child, Preschool; Feces; Helminthiasis; Humans; Infant; Nematode Infections; Schistosoma; Schistosomiasis; Spiruroidea; Strongyloidiasis; Zambia; Zoonoses
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