National surveillance on soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the People's Republic of China.
Ascaris lumbricoides
China
Hookworm
Infection rate
National surveillance
Soil-transmitted helminth
Trichuris trichiura
Journal
Acta tropica
ISSN: 1873-6254
Titre abrégé: Acta Trop
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0370374
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2020
May 2020
Historique:
received:
26
11
2018
revised:
15
01
2020
accepted:
17
01
2020
pubmed:
21
1
2020
medline:
15
9
2020
entrez:
21
1
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) are widely distributed and remain a public health problem in the People's Republic of China. Altogether, 301 counties across 30 regions were investigated during the national surveillance on STHs carried out in 2016 based on the modified Kato-Katz thick smear method to examine faecal samples. A total of 305 081 people were investigated with 7 366 (2.4%) found to be infected. The infection rates were the following: hookworm 1.4%, Ascaris lumbricoides 0.8% and Trichuris trichiura 0.5%. Having established that the STHs infection rate is relatively low, it is time to move towards elimination. The national surveillance system is essential for providing basic data and formulation of useful control strategies towards achieving this goal.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31958411
pii: S0001-706X(18)31521-3
doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105351
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Soil
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
105351Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The author declare that they have neither competing interests nor conflict of interests.