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Environmental Factors Related to Enterobiasis in a Southeast Region of Korea

Pinworm infection can occur through contact with contaminated surfaces followed by ingestion or even through inhalation of infective eggs. We have limited information regarding environmental contamination by eggs of Enterobius vermicularis. In order to determine environmental risk factors associated...

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Autores principales: Kim, Dong-Hee, Cho, Min Kyoung, Park, Mi Kyung, Kang, Shin Ae, Kim, Bo Young, Park, Sang Kyun, Yu, Hak Sun
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Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23468007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.1.139
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author Kim, Dong-Hee
Cho, Min Kyoung
Park, Mi Kyung
Kang, Shin Ae
Kim, Bo Young
Park, Sang Kyun
Yu, Hak Sun
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Cho, Min Kyoung
Park, Mi Kyung
Kang, Shin Ae
Kim, Bo Young
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Yu, Hak Sun
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description Pinworm infection can occur through contact with contaminated surfaces followed by ingestion or even through inhalation of infective eggs. We have limited information regarding environmental contamination by eggs of Enterobius vermicularis. In order to determine environmental risk factors associated with the rate of E. vermicularis infection, we investigated possible environmental risk factors using a questionnaire from 46 kindergartens in 3 different cities of the southeast area of Korea. In total, using the cellotape anal swab technique, 3,422 children were examined for E. vermicularis infection. We evaluated E. vermicularis egg of books, educational materials, toys, room door handles, dusts of window edges, desks, chairs, tables, and dusts of classrooms. The overall egg-positive rate for E. vermicularis was 6.0%, and the prevalence of enterobiasis in each kindergarten ranged between 0% and 16.9%. We found that 78.9% of egg positive kindergartens were managed by private foundations, which was significantly higher, compared with kindergartens managed by public foundations or the nation. Compared with public or national kindergartens, most private kindergartens were located in residential areas and the number of children in these areas was significantly higher. In conclusion, numbers of children in kindergartens was found to be an environmental risk factor associated with transmission of enterobiasis in Korea.
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spelling pubmed-35877442013-03-06 Environmental Factors Related to Enterobiasis in a Southeast Region of Korea Kim, Dong-Hee Cho, Min Kyoung Park, Mi Kyung Kang, Shin Ae Kim, Bo Young Park, Sang Kyun Yu, Hak Sun Korean J Parasitol Brief Communication Pinworm infection can occur through contact with contaminated surfaces followed by ingestion or even through inhalation of infective eggs. We have limited information regarding environmental contamination by eggs of Enterobius vermicularis. In order to determine environmental risk factors associated with the rate of E. vermicularis infection, we investigated possible environmental risk factors using a questionnaire from 46 kindergartens in 3 different cities of the southeast area of Korea. In total, using the cellotape anal swab technique, 3,422 children were examined for E. vermicularis infection. We evaluated E. vermicularis egg of books, educational materials, toys, room door handles, dusts of window edges, desks, chairs, tables, and dusts of classrooms. The overall egg-positive rate for E. vermicularis was 6.0%, and the prevalence of enterobiasis in each kindergarten ranged between 0% and 16.9%. We found that 78.9% of egg positive kindergartens were managed by private foundations, which was significantly higher, compared with kindergartens managed by public foundations or the nation. Compared with public or national kindergartens, most private kindergartens were located in residential areas and the number of children in these areas was significantly higher. In conclusion, numbers of children in kindergartens was found to be an environmental risk factor associated with transmission of enterobiasis in Korea. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2013-02 2013-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3587744/ /pubmed/23468007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.1.139 Text en © 2013, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kang, Shin Ae
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3587744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23468007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2013.51.1.139
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