Investigation of human stool samples from the Cape Verde Islands (district Santa Cruz/Santiago)
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C Buchrieser1, W Sixl, V Buchrieser
1Institute of Hygiene, University of Graz, Austria.
Geographia Medica. Supplement = Geographia Medica. Sonderband
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Based on the rate of occurrence of diseases associated with diarrhoea, stool samples were also investigated; parasitologically, using the MiFC-enrichment method for intestinal parasites; serologically, using ELISA for rotavirus and bacteriologically for Shigella and Salmonella on the Cape Verde Islands. 90% of the samples came from children aged between 6 and 14 years. Entamoeba histolytica, the causal agent of amoebic dysentery was demonstrated in 17.4%, Lamblia intestinalis in 28.7% and rotavirus in 14.5%.