TY - JOUR
T1 - Prevalence of Schistosoma haematobium infection among inhabitants of Lowveld, Swaziland, an endemic area for the disease
AU - Chu, T. B.
AU - Liao, C. W.
AU - D'Lamini, P.
AU - Chang, Peter W S
AU - Chiu, W. T.
AU - Du, W. Y.
AU - Fan, C. K.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We carried out a parasitological survey of Schistosoma haematobium infection among the residents of Lowveld Siphofaneni, Swaziland, an area which is devoid of sanitation. Subjects with positive infection were confirmed by the detection of S. haematobium ova in their urine. The intensity of the infection was estimated by calculating the total number of S. haematobium ova present in 10 ml urine specimen (geometric mean intensity; GMI). Overall, the prevalence of S. haematobium infection was 6.1% (18/295) with a GMI of 20.7 (95% CI = 9.1~32.2). Female (10.5%, 16/153) had significantly higher prevalence than that in male (1.4%, 2/142) (ORs = 8.2, 95% CI = 1.8-36.2, P <0.01); conversely, male had higher GMI (60.0) than that (17.3) in female. The age group of ≤5 yrs (15.3%, 9/59) had significantly higher prevalence than that in age group of ≥19 yrs (2.6%, 3/115) (ORs = 0.2, 95% CI =0.04-0.57, P <0.01). The highest GMI of 27.9 (95% CI = 7.6~48.2) was also seen in age group of ≤5 yrs.
AB - We carried out a parasitological survey of Schistosoma haematobium infection among the residents of Lowveld Siphofaneni, Swaziland, an area which is devoid of sanitation. Subjects with positive infection were confirmed by the detection of S. haematobium ova in their urine. The intensity of the infection was estimated by calculating the total number of S. haematobium ova present in 10 ml urine specimen (geometric mean intensity; GMI). Overall, the prevalence of S. haematobium infection was 6.1% (18/295) with a GMI of 20.7 (95% CI = 9.1~32.2). Female (10.5%, 16/153) had significantly higher prevalence than that in male (1.4%, 2/142) (ORs = 8.2, 95% CI = 1.8-36.2, P <0.01); conversely, male had higher GMI (60.0) than that (17.3) in female. The age group of ≤5 yrs (15.3%, 9/59) had significantly higher prevalence than that in age group of ≥19 yrs (2.6%, 3/115) (ORs = 0.2, 95% CI =0.04-0.57, P <0.01). The highest GMI of 27.9 (95% CI = 7.6~48.2) was also seen in age group of ≤5 yrs.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 20962734
AN - SCOPUS:77957654322
SN - 0127-5720
VL - 27
SP - 337
EP - 342
JO - Tropical Biomedicine
JF - Tropical Biomedicine
IS - 2
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