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KMID : 0353019730100020353
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1973 Volume.10 No. 2 p.353 ~ p.355
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The Status of Helminthic Infection in a Rural Community
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Abstract
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A survey on the helminthic infection in a rural community of Pocheon-gun, Kyunggi-do, Korea was carried out in Aug. 1969. 137 out of about 700 households of the community werre sampled according to the systematic sampling method. The fecces-urine mixtures in equal part were collected from the tanks of privy pits of each sample household and examined for the helminthic eggs by means of zinc sulfate centrifugal flotation technique and Stoll´s egg count method.
The results showed the egg positive rates for Ascaris lumbrecoides 98.5%, Trichuris trichiura 99.3%, hookworms 40.0%, Trichostrongylus orientalis 16.8% and Hymenolepis nana 0.7%.
The estimated values of eggs per lgm. of feces (E.P.G.) were 4,662 ofr Ascaris lumbricoides, 602 for Trichuris trichiura, 150 for hookworms and 12 for Trichostrongylus orientalis. Of the total Ascaris eggs couted 97% were fertilized and 3% unfertilized.
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