PARASITIC DISEASE IN HUMANS - EXTENT IN CANADA

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 120  (3) , 310-312
Abstract
Indigenous parasite pathogens are recognized in resident Canadians, and pathogens are acquired by travellers abroad or reported from immigrants. The role of each of these categories is important in the characterization of the problem of parasitic diseases [malaria, toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, hydatidosis, leishmaniasis, trypanasomiasis and hepatic amebiasis] in Canada. From data provided by provincial laboratories and hospitals it is estimated that 1 person in 1000 spends 1 day/yr in hospital because of intestinal parasites, and 1 in 100 each year has a diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infection made from examination of a stool sample.