Endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis in Ihube Okigwe Imo state
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-22T07:53:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-22T07:53:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-11-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract Studies on urinary schistosomiasis and its snail vector were undertaken. Of the 1,564 urine specimens examined, 472 (30.2%) comprising 312 (66.1%) males and 160 (34.0%) females were infected, with visible haematuria as their predominant presenting symptoms. Among the infected, 331 (70.1%) were excreting under 100 eggs per 10 ml urine, while 132 (28.0%) and 9 (1.9%) were excreting 10,500 and above respectively. Statistical analysis revealed the intensity of the infection to be significantly higher (p<0.01) in persons under 20 years than in persons above 20 years, while significant variation (p<0.01) in incidence was recorded among different villages, sex, age, and occupational groups. The snail intermediate hosts collected during the routine malacological survey include Bulinus globosus, B. truncatus, Lymnaea natalensis and Melanoides tuberculata. Of those snails, only B. globosus was found infected with cercariae believed to be human schistosomes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ds.eaeu.edu.sd/handle/10.58971/418 | |
| dc.language.iso | other | |
| dc.publisher | (جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري) | |
| dc.title | Endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis in Ihube Okigwe Imo state |