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Determining Soil-transmitted Helminth Infection Status and Physical Fitness of School-aged Children
Published on: August 22, 2012
[Studies on the frequency of Corynebacterium diphtheriae carriers among students of the elementary schools in Bari]
Abstract:
The morbidity of diphtheria reported in Bari in 1970 and in 1971 was 17.1 and 19.1 for 100000 inhabitants; in the same years the national average was respectively 1.6 and 1.3. In a epidemiological research carried out in the same period in 1017 school-children of Bari not previously selected, 45 carriers of C. diphtheriae (4.42%) were identified. Toxigen strains were isolated from 11 carriers (1.08%). The frequency of carriers was higher in the school-children 9-11 years aged (6-04%), lower in the school-children 6-8 years aged (2.99%).
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