scholarly journals Sterilization potential of Ascaris lumbricoides eggs in the presence of different disinfectant agents

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Fernando Sérgio Barbosa ◽  
Mariela Helena Leite ◽  
Mariana Teixeira De Faria ◽  
Bruna De Alcântara Veloso Gontijo ◽  
Guilherme Pereira Fontes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ascaris Lumbricoides ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Larval Mortality ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Parasitic Infections ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Intestinal Parasitic Infections ◽  
Action Time

Introduction: Intestinal parasitic infections represent a public health problem, being responsible for high rates of morbidity and mortality.  Ascaris lumbricoides is one of the main parasites prevalent in the community.  The A. lumbricoides infection method is oral fecal cicle, in this sense, it is necessary to expand effective methods to prevent the ingestion of eggs, such as sanitation, cleansing habits or even effective methods for the sterilization of eggs. Objective: Evaluate different agents of antisepsis action, with the purpose of find which ones are more efficient in larval mortality inside eggs. Methodology: The parasites were provided by the Federal University of Minas Gerais, which were sectioned, in this way, the recovered eggs were kept in culture bottles.  After 40 days the embryonated eggs were purified and separated in culture bottles, and in each bottle had one different disinfectant products were added, in different concentrations and action time.  As control, egg aliquots were maintained by adding distilled water.  Using a microscope, it was observed the viability of the larvae inside.  To determine the viability of the larvae, distilled water at 40 °C was added, then allowing the visualization of mobility inside the eggs. Results: It was observed that, fifteen disinfectant agents tested, only four showed efficacy, at intervals of 24 and 48 hours after exposure to the disinfectant and when undiluted. Conclusion: The data obtained in this study will contribute to the understanding of the epidemiology of this disease, as well as contributing to the development of more effective hygiene programs for the control of this parasitosis.  

scholarly journals Prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides in contaminated faecal samples of children residing in urban areas of Lahore, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahida Azhar Ali ◽  
Sadaf Niaz ◽  
Liliana Aguilar-Marcelino ◽  
Wajid Ali ◽  
Majid Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
School Children ◽  
Ascaris Lumbricoides ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Urban Study ◽  
Faecal Samples

AbstractAscariasis is a common public health problem of preschool and primary school children in developing countries like Pakistan. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of Ascaris lumbericoides (A. lumbricoides) infection among children residing in urban areas of Lahore, to provide information on ascariasis to promote awareness and prevention programs between the participants specially on the months or season of higher prevalence. To investigate the prevalence of Ascaris Lumbricoides in the contaminated faecal samples of children residing in urban areas of Lahore, a study was conducted from November 2010 to October 2012 and we collected 3600 stratified faecal samples from six urban study areas. Overall 32/3600 (0.88%) prevalence of fecal samples was found positive for eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides. Area wise highest presence positivity 1.67% was observed in Allama Iqbal Town followed by 1.17% in Samanabad, 1.00% in Wapda Town, 1.00% in Gulberg, 0.50% in Cantt, and the lowest 0.00% in Valencia Town respectively (p < 0.001) The highest month wise positivity prevalence 3/300 (3.33%) (p < 0.001) was observed in the month of September that gradually declined up to 0/300 (0.00%) in the month of March. The results reveal that urban areas of Lahore are susceptible to Ascaris Lubricoides infection and the highest prevalence were observed autumn on the month of September.

scholarly journals O enfermeiro na assistência à mulher com câncer de colo uterino

2015 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Carla Monteiro Santos ◽  
Doralice De Almeida Nascimento Silva ◽  
Gleise Gonçalves Passos da Silva ◽  
Tatiana Santana de Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Faustino dos Santos Maia
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Multiple Health

O Câncer de Colo Uterino apresenta nos dias atuais um grande problema de saúde pública no Brasil, necessitando cada vez mais de profissionais capacitados para o combate a essa doença maligna, minimizando sua morbimortalidade. Neste âmbito podemos destacar o Papel do enfermeiro como fundamental na transformação dessa realidade que vivemos hoje. O enfermeiro atua tanto no sentido de assistir, coordenar as práticas de cuidado, quanto no sentido de educar, promover, proteger, reabilitar essas mulheres, de forma autônoma, criativa e ativa nos múltiplos níveis de atenção à saúde, através do levantamento de hipóteses analíticas e intervenções sistematizadas de rotinas de cuidados, subsidiando falhas e promovendo continuidade e resolutividade do cuidado em saúde.Descritores: Câncer de Colo Uterino, Mulher, Enfermagem. Nurses in care woman with cervical cancerAbstract: The Cancer Cervical presents nowadays a major public health problem in Brazil, requiring more and more trained professionals to combat this evil disease, minimizing morbidity and mortality. In this context we can highlight the nurse's role as fundamental in transforming this reality we live in today. The nurse acts both to assist coordinate care practices, as to educate, promote, protect, rehabilitate these women in an autonomous, creative and active in multiple health care levels, through the lifting of analytical assumptions systematized and interventions care routines, subsidizing failure and promoting continuity and resolution of health care. Descriptors: Cervical Cancer, Women, Nursing. Enfermero en la atención la mujer con cáncer de cuello uterinoResumen: Los regalos del cáncer de cuello uterino hoy en día un importante problema de salud pública en Brasil, lo que requiere cada vez más capacitados profesionales para combatir esta enfermedad mal, lo que minimiza la morbilidad y la mortalidad. En este contexto cabe destacar el papel de la enfermera tan fundamental en la transformación de esta realidad que vivimos hoy. La enfermera actúa tanto para ayudar, coordinar las prácticas de atención, como para educar, promover, proteger, rehabilitar a estas mujeres en un autónomas, creativas y activas en múltiples niveles de atención de salud, a través de la elevación de supuestos analíticos rutinas sistematizados y las intervenciones de atención, subsidiando el fracaso y la promoción de la continuidad y de la resolución de la atención sanitaria. Descriptores: Cáncer de Cuello Uterino, Mujer, Enfermería.

scholarly journals Pattern of parasitic infections as public health problem among school children: A comparative study between rural and urban areas

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Saad R. Alsubaie ◽  
Ahmed A. Azazy ◽  
Eltigani O. Omer ◽  
Latifa A. Al-shibani ◽  
Abdulsalam Q. Al-Mekhlafi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
School Children ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Parasitic Infections ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban

scholarly journals Environmental contamination by parasitic forms in a socially vulnerable community in southern Rio Grande do Sul state: a serious public health problem

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. e132007
Author(s):  
Gabriela De Almeida Capella ◽  
Natália Berne Pinto ◽  
Soliane Carra Perera ◽  
Claudia Giordani ◽  
Micaele Quintana de Moura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Contamination ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Parasitic Infections ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Sodium Dichromate ◽  
Vulnerable Community

vulnerability. The fact that these people share the environment with animals promotes the establishment of zoonotic parasitic infections, as well as the resultant parasitic cycles. Thus, parasites present in the environment must be identified, so that control measures can be recommended. In this context, this study’s objective was to evaluate environmental contamination by parasitic forms in a socially vulnerable community in southern Rio Grande do Sul. A total of 100 soil samples collected from the community were processed by a sodium dichromate centrifuge-flotation technique and analyzed by a compound microscope (40X objective) for the identification of parasite eggs, oocysts and cysts. All points were positive for two or more parasites, with the identification of 33.59% non-identified coccidian oocysts, Strongylida (25.4%), Ascaridida (21.31%), Trichuris spp. (8.19%), Toxocara spp. (3.27%), Amoebas (4.08%), Dioctophyma renale (2.45%), and Giardia spp. (1.63%). The presence of parasitic forms in all points analyzed surpasses other studies of environmental contamination carried out in the southern region of Brazil. In addition, the identification of several parasitic forms with zoonotic potential is concerning, since it shows the possibility of parasitic transmission to humans and other animals. In view of the results, the conclusion is that the environment analyzed is contaminated by parasitic forms, constituting a serious public health problem. Therefore, implementing educational and preventive measures in the community to control parasites is of crucial importance.

scholarly journals O enfermeiro na assistência à mulher com câncer de colo uterino

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Carla Monteiro Santos ◽  
Doralice De Almeida Nascimento Silva ◽  
Gleise Gonçalves Passos da Silva ◽  
Tatiana Santana de Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Faustino dos Santos Maia
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Multiple Health

O Câncer de Colo Uterino apresenta nos dias atuais um grande problema de saúde pública no Brasil, necessitando cada vez mais de profissionais capacitados para o combate a essa doença maligna, minimizando sua morbimortalidade. Neste âmbito podemos destacar o Papel do enfermeiro como fundamental na transformação dessa realidade que vivemos hoje. O enfermeiro atua tanto no sentido de assistir, coordenar as práticas de cuidado, quanto no sentido de educar, promover, proteger, reabilitar essas mulheres, de forma autônoma, criativa e ativa nos múltiplos níveis de atenção à saúde, através do levantamento de hipóteses analíticas e intervenções sistematizadas de rotinas de cuidados, subsidiando falhas e promovendo continuidade e resolutividade do cuidado em saúde.Descritores: Câncer de Colo Uterino, Mulher, Enfermagem. Nurses in care woman with cervical cancerAbstract: The Cancer Cervical presents nowadays a major public health problem in Brazil, requiring more and more trained professionals to combat this evil disease, minimizing morbidity and mortality. In this context we can highlight the nurse's role as fundamental in transforming this reality we live in today. The nurse acts both to assist coordinate care practices, as to educate, promote, protect, rehabilitate these women in an autonomous, creative and active in multiple health care levels, through the lifting of analytical assumptions systematized and interventions care routines, subsidizing failure and promoting continuity and resolution of health care. Descriptors: Cervical Cancer, Women, Nursing. Enfermero en la atención la mujer con cáncer de cuello uterinoResumen: Los regalos del cáncer de cuello uterino hoy en día un importante problema de salud pública en Brasil, lo que requiere cada vez más capacitados profesionales para combatir esta enfermedad mal, lo que minimiza la morbilidad y la mortalidad. En este contexto cabe destacar el papel de la enfermera tan fundamental en la transformación de esta realidad que vivimos hoy. La enfermera actúa tanto para ayudar, coordinar las prácticas de atención, como para educar, promover, proteger, rehabilitar a estas mujeres en un autónomas, creativas y activas en múltiples niveles de atención de salud, a través de la elevación de supuestos analíticos rutinas sistematizados y las intervenciones de atención, subsidiando el fracaso y la promoción de la continuidad y de la resolución de la atención sanitaria. Descriptores: Cáncer de Cuello Uterino, Mujer, Enfermería.

scholarly journals Prevalence, Intensity, and Correlates of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections among School Children after a Decade of Preventive Chemotherapy in Western Rwanda

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1076
Author(s):  
Joseph Kabatende ◽  
Michael Mugisha ◽  
Lazare Ntirenganya ◽  
Abbie Barry ◽  
Eugene Ruberanziza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
School Children ◽  
Ascaris Lumbricoides ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Preventive Chemotherapy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Soil Transmitted Helminths

Preventive chemotherapy (PC) is a WHO-recommended core intervention measures to eliminate Soil-Transmitted Helminths (STH) as a public health problem by 2020, defined as a reduction in prevalence to <1% of moderate or high-intensity infection. We conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate the prevalence, intensity, and correlates of STH after a decade of PC in Rwanda. A total of 4998 school children (5–15 years old) from four districts along Lake Kivu in the western province were screened for STH using Kato-Katz. The overall prevalence of Soil-transmitted helminths among school children was 77.7% (range between districts = 54% to 92%). Trichirus trichiura was the most common STH (66.8%, range between districts = 23% to 88.2%), followed by Ascaris lumbricoides (49.9%, range between district = 28.5% to 63.3%) and hookworms (1.9%, range between districts = 0.6% to 2.9%). The prevalence of single, double and of triple parasite coinfection were 48.6%, 50.3%, and 1.1%, respectively. The overall prevalence of moderate or high-intensity infection for Trichirus trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides was 7.1% and 13.9, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression model revealed that male sex, district, stunting, and schistosomiasis coinfection as significant predictors of STH infection. Despite a decade of PC implementation, STH remain a significant public health problem in Rwanda.

scholarly journals Environmental analyses of the parasitic profile found in the sandy soil from the Santos municipality beaches, SP, Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Rocha ◽  
Rosa Maria Ferreiro Pinto ◽  
Aline Petrollini Floriano ◽  
Lais Helena Teixeira ◽  
Bianca Bassili ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sandy Soil ◽  
Ascaris Lumbricoides ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Contamination Level ◽  
Saline Soils ◽  
Degree Of Contamination ◽  
Zoonotic Parasites ◽  
Eggs And Larvae

The environmental contamination by geohelminths represents a world public health problem and has been well documented by several authors. However, few papers describe the presence of such contamination in saline soils of coastal beaches. A study was performed on the beaches of the municipality of Santos in the period between May 2004 to April 2005 with the aim of determining the degree of contamination, and the correlation between contamination level and seasonal conditions and characteristics of the environment. Of the 2,520 samples analyzed, 18.2% (458) were contaminated, 32.3% (148) of which were localized in children's recreational areas (playgrounds). The parasite profile found in the analyzed samples indicated the presence of several zoonotic parasites: Ancylostoma larvae (82.5%), Toxocara sp. eggs (59.4%), Ancylostomidae-like eggs (37.1%), coccid oocysts (13.5%), Trichostrongylus sp. eggs and larvae, Ascaris lumbricoides eggs, (11.6%), Entamoeba sp. cysts (10.0%), Strongyloides sp. (4.8%), several free nematoids and some non-identified parasitic structures (3.3%). It was established that the highest frequency of parasitic structures occurred in the months between May and October 2004, and from February to March 2005. An increase in the diversity of parasitic forms was documented in the months between February to December 2004 and from January to April 2005, these periods having the highest rainfall.

scholarly journals Factors associated with soil-transmitted helminths infection in Benin: Findings from the DeWorm3 study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. e0009646
Author(s):  
Euripide F. G. A. Avokpaho ◽  
Parfait Houngbégnon ◽  
Manfred Accrombessi ◽  
Eloïc Atindégla ◽  
Elodie Yard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ascaris Lumbricoides ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Infection Intensity ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Current Control ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Hookworm Infection ◽  
Factors Associated

Background Despite several years of school-based MDA implementation, STH infections remain an important public health problem in Benin, with a country-wide prevalence of 20% in 2015. The DeWorm3 study is designed to assess the feasibility of using community-based MDA with albendazole to interrupt the transmission of STH, through a series of cluster-randomized trials in Benin, India and Malawi. We used the pre-treatment baseline survey data to describe and analyze the factors associated with STH infection in Comé, the study site of the DeWorm3 project in Benin. These data will improve understanding of the challenges that need to be addressed in order to eliminate STH as a public health problem in Benin. Methods Between March and April 2018, the prevalence of STH (hookworm spp., Ascaris and Trichuris trichiura) was assessed by Kato-Katz in stool samples collected from 6,153 residents in the community of Comé, Benin using a stratified random sampling procedure. A standardized survey questionnaire was used to collect information from individual households concerning factors potentially associated with the presence and intensity of STH infections in pre-school (PSAC, aged 1–4), school-aged children (SAC, aged 5–14) and adults (aged 15 and above). Multilevel mixed-effects models were used to assess associations between these factors and STH infection. Results The overall prevalence of STH infection was 5.3%; 3.2% hookworm spp., 2.1% Ascaris lumbricoides and 0.1% Trichuris. Hookworm spp. were more prevalent in adults than in SAC (4.4% versus 2.0%, respectively; p = 0.0001) and PSAC (4.4% versus 1.0%, respectively; p<0.0001), whilst Ascaris lumbricoides was more prevalent in SAC than in adults (3.0% versus 1.7%, respectively; p = 0.004). Being PSAC (adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR) = 0.2, p< 0.001; adjusted Infection Intensity Ratio (aIIR) = 0.1, p<0.001) or SAC (aOR = 0.5, p = 0.008; aIIR = 0.3, p = 0.01), being a female (aOR = 0.6, p = 0.004; aIIR = 0.3, p = 0.001), and having received deworming treatment the previous year (aOR = 0.4, p< 0.002; aIIR = 0.2, p<0.001) were associated with a lower prevalence and intensity of hookworm infection. Lower income (lowest quintile: aOR = 5.0, p<0.001, 2nd quintile aOR = 3.6, p = 0.001 and 3rd quintile aOR = 2.5, p = 0.02), being a farmer (aOR = 1.8, p = 0.02), medium population density (aOR = 2.6, p = 0.01), and open defecation (aOR = 0.5, p = 0.04) were associated with a higher prevalence of hookworm infection. Lower education—no education, primary or secondary school- (aIIR = 40.1, p = 0.01; aIIR = 30.9, p = 0.02; aIIR = 19.3, p = 0.04, respectively), farming (aIIR = 3.9, p = 0.002), natural flooring (aIIR = 0.2, p = 0.06), peri-urban settings (aIIR = 6.2, 95%CI 1.82–20.90, p = 0.003), and unimproved water source more than 30 minutes from the household (aIIR = 13.5, p = 0.02) were associated with a higher intensity of hookworm infection. Improved and unshared toilet was associated with lower intensity of hookworm infections (aIIR = 0.2, p = 0.01). SAC had a higher odds of Ascaris lumbricoides infection than adults (aOR = 2.0, p = 0.01) and females had a lower odds of infection (aOR = 0.5, p = 0.02). Conclusion Hookworm spp. are the most prevalent STH in Comé, with a persistent reservoir in adults that is not addressed by current control measures based on school MDA. Expanding MDA to target adults and PSAC is necessary to substantially impact population prevalence, particularly for hookworm. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03014167.

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