Prevalence of soil transmitted helminths in school-aged children, Colombia, 2012-2013

• Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 14; no. 7; p. e0007613
• Main Authors: González Quiroz, David José, Agudelo Lopez, Sonia del Pilar, Arango, Catalina María, Acosta, Jesús Ernesto Ochoa, Bello Parias, León Darío, Alzate, Leonardo Uribe, Hernández Castro, Carolina, Medina Lozano, Angélica Patricia, Sepúlveda Vergara, Geicy Derly, Giraldo, Adriana Molina, Trujillo-Trujillo, Julián, Pernett Bolaño, Ivet Del Carmen, Cuellar Segura, Claudia Milena, Arbeláez Montoya, María Patricia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 01.07.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Anaemia; Anemia; Biogeography; Biology and Life Sciences; Caregivers; Children; Countries; Demography; Distribution; Earth Sciences; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Epidemiology; Funding; Health risks; Helminthiasis; Infections; Intestine; Knowledge management; Light intensity; Living conditions; Luminous intensity; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methods; Morbidity; Municipalities; Nutritional status; Parasites; Parasitology; Pediatric diseases; People and places; Population; Probability theory; Provinces; Public health; Sample size; Sanitation; Sanitation services; Sentinel surveillance; Social Sciences; Socio-economic aspects; Socioeconomics; Software; Soil; Soils; Studies; Surveying; Tropical diseases; Urban schools; Colombia

Background This study aims to establish the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) intestinal infections, nutritional status, and anemia in school children aged 7 to 10 years old in the biogeographic provinces of Colombia in 2012-2013. STH prevalence in the country has not been described with...