CLINICAL ASCARIASIS
- 1 August 1946
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in American Journal of Diseases of Children
- Vol. 72 (2) , 172-180
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1946.02020310038002
Abstract
STUDIES by Faust,1 Headlee2 and Moss3 on the incidence of intestinal parasites in and around New Orleans have demonstrated the relatively common occurrence of ascariasis in this area. Also, of 11,000 stools of clinic and hospitalized patients at the Charity Hospital in this city examined by my associates and me, 426 were found to contain ova of Ascaris lumbricoides. In view of the common occurrence of ascariasis in this metropolitan area and of my opportunity to observe numerous cases of this helminth infection, I am presenting an analysis of the clinical and laboratory data from the case records of 202 patients with clinically evident A. lumbricoides infection admitted to the Charity Hospital of Louisiana during a period of about a decade. The cases in this series met the following criteria:Keywords
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