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Status of intestinal helminthic infections of borderline residents in North Korea  

Li Shunyu (Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Yanbian University College of Medicine)
Shen Chenghua (Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Yanbian University College of Medicine)
Choi Min-Ho (Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Bae Young-Mee (Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Yoon Hi-Won (Department of Korean Language Education, Seoul National University College of Education)
Hong Sung-Tae (Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases / v.44, no.3, 2006 , pp. 265-268 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present authors investigated intestinal parasitic infections among North Korean residents and refugees in China in 2003. The Kato-Katz method was applied to 236 residents and soldiers in a town on the North Korea-China border and to 46 people at a refugee camp in China. Only eggs of Ascaris and Trichuris were detected, with egg positive rates of 41.1 % and 37.6%, respectively. The total egg positive rate was 55.0% and most of those who were egg positive were only lightly infected. Women of 61.2% and men of 53.1 % were egg positive. The refugees from rural areas showed higher egg positive rates than those from urban areas. The present investigation confirmed high prevalence of soil-transmitted intestinal helminths in rural borderline areas of North Korea.
Keywords
Ascaris; Trichuris; egg positive rate; refugee; North Korea;
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