Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Cyclospora cayetanensis and Cryptosporidium parvum infections among people living a slum in Kathmandu valley, Nepal. RESULTS: Ten different parasites were detected in the stool samples; the prevalence of any parasite was in 27.1% (71...

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Autores principales: Bhattachan, Balkrishna, Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadhur, Tandukar, Sarmila, Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal, Gauchan, Leesa, Rai, Ganesh
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28882168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2779-2
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author Bhattachan, Balkrishna
Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadhur
Tandukar, Sarmila
Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
Gauchan, Leesa
Rai, Ganesh
author_facet Bhattachan, Balkrishna
Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadhur
Tandukar, Sarmila
Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
Gauchan, Leesa
Rai, Ganesh
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description OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Cyclospora cayetanensis and Cryptosporidium parvum infections among people living a slum in Kathmandu valley, Nepal. RESULTS: Ten different parasites were detected in the stool samples; the prevalence of any parasite was in 27.1% (71/262). The prevalence of C. cayetanensis and C. parvum were 14.1% (10/71) and 5.6% (4/71), respectively. This study showed high prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections along with the coccidian parasites in the slum area of Kathmandu Valley. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-017-2779-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-55901642017-09-14 Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal Bhattachan, Balkrishna Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadhur Tandukar, Sarmila Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal Gauchan, Leesa Rai, Ganesh BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Cyclospora cayetanensis and Cryptosporidium parvum infections among people living a slum in Kathmandu valley, Nepal. RESULTS: Ten different parasites were detected in the stool samples; the prevalence of any parasite was in 27.1% (71/262). The prevalence of C. cayetanensis and C. parvum were 14.1% (10/71) and 5.6% (4/71), respectively. This study showed high prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections along with the coccidian parasites in the slum area of Kathmandu Valley. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-017-2779-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5590164/ /pubmed/28882168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2779-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Research Note
Bhattachan, Balkrishna
Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadhur
Tandukar, Sarmila
Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
Gauchan, Leesa
Rai, Ganesh
Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
title Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
title_full Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
title_fullStr Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
title_short Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
title_sort detection of cryptosporidium parvum and cyclospora cayetanensis infections among people living in a slum area in kathmandu valley, nepal
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28882168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2779-2
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