Recent patterns of <i>Enterobius vermicularis</i> infection in some school children, Korea

Original Article


Korean J Parasitol. 1988 Sep;26(3):215-220. English. Published online Mar 20, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.1988.26.3.215
Copyright © 1988 by The Korean Society for Parasitology


Recent patterns of Enterobius vermicularis infection in some school children, Korea
Yong Suk Ryang
Department of Medical Technology, Yonsei University, College of Health Science, Wonju 220-701, Korea.


Abstract
To investigate the infection status of Enterobius vermicularis the author tried surveys by scotch-tape anal swap on school-children and household environmental factors considered to have influences on the infection were analyzed by an inquiry method with questionnaire. The survey was carried out in October 1986 and 1988 in urban and suburban areas and the results could summarized as follow: The egg positive rate in anal swab was 16.0 per cent (male 14.5 per cent, female 17.6 per cent) out of 2,156 school-children and higher in female group. The egg positive rate in suburban school-children (17.5 per cent out of 1,305 children of two primary school)was a little higher than that of urban school-children(13.6 per cent out of 851 children of one primary schools). The questionnaire analysis on environmental factors showed some significant relations between the egg positive rate and such factors as the number of brothers and sisters, householder's occupation, and avalibility of childroom or bathroom. The result indicate that, although enterobiasis in school-children has shown decreasing tendency in Korea, it is still considerably high in some urban and suburban areas.

Figures


	Fig. 1 Changing pattern of egg positive rate of E. vermicularis by grade, sex and survey year.

Tables


	Table 1 Prevalence of E. vermicularis infection among school children (1984~86)


	Table 2 Distribution of E. vermicularis infection by grade of class and sex (1984~86)


	Table 3 Distribution of respondents in questionnaire study on the students of primary school in 1988


	Table 4 Comparison of E. vermicularis infection among school children in 1974~1976^* and 1984~1986

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