Parasitic Disease Surveillance, Mississippi, USA

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Bradbury, Richard S. ; Lane, Meredith ; Arguello, Irene ; Handali, Sukwan ; Cooley, Gretchen ; Pilotte, Nils ; Williams, John M. ; Jameson, Sam ; Montgomery, Susan P. ; Hellmann, Kathryn ; Tharp, Michelle ; Haynie, Lisa ; Galloway, Regina ; Brackin, Bruce ; Kirmse, Brian ; Stempak, Lisa ; Byers, Paul ; Williams, Steven ; Faruque, Fazlay ; Hobbs, Charlotte V.
• Description:
  Surveillance for soil-transmitted helminths, strongyloidiasis, cryptosporidiosis, and giardiasis was conducted in Mississippi, USA. PCR performed on 224 fecal samples for all soil-transmitted helminths and on 370 samples for only Necator americanus and Strongyloides stercoralis identified 1 S. stercoralis infection. Seroprevalences were 8.8% for Toxocara, 27.4% for Cryptosporidium, 5.7% for Giardia, and 0.2% for Strongyloides parasites.
• Subjects:
  Cryptosporidiosis Feces Giardiasis Humans Parasitic Diseases
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(8):2201-2204
• Pubmed ID:
  34287125
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8314824
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Mississippi
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b42ed1a47727d8687230ee79c2bc0c6f1c88fba737e1c3e277427665e8832d3b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/108786/cdc_108786_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.24 MB ]