Parasitic Disease Surveillance, Mississippi, USA

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 27; no. 8; pp. 2201 - 2204
• Main Authors: 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
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlanta U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.08.2021; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Antibodies; Antigens; Cryptosporidiosis; Cryptosporidium; Disease control; Dispatch; Epidemiology; Feces; Health surveillance; Infections; Parasites; Parasitic Disease Surveillance, Mississippi, USA; Parasitic diseases; Pediatrics; Public health; Risk factors; Sanitation; Soil-transmitted helminths; Statistics; Strongyloides; strongyloidiasis; Toxocara; toxocariasis; United States; Alabama; United States > US; Mississippi
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2708.204318

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.