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dc.contributor.authorAmor Aramendia, Aranzazu 
dc.contributor.authorAnegagrie, Melaku 
dc.contributor.authorZewdie, Derjew
dc.contributor.authorDacal, Elena 
dc.contributor.authorSaugar, Jose Maria 
dc.contributor.authorHerrador, Zaida 
dc.contributor.authorHailu, Tadesse 
dc.contributor.authorYimer, Mulat 
dc.contributor.authorPeriago, María V
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, Esperanza 
dc.contributor.authorBenito, Agustin 
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-10T08:25:24Z
dc.date.available2020-08-10T08:25:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.identifier.citationPLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Jun 4;14(6):e0008315.es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/10855
dc.description.abstractSoil transmitted helminths are highly prevalent worldwide. Globally, approximately 1.5 billion people are infected with Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura or hookworm. Endemic countries carry out periodic mass treatment of at-risk populations with albendazole or mebendazole as a control measure. Most prevalence studies have focused on school aged children and therefore control programs are implemented at school level, not at community level. In this study, the prevalence of intestinal helminths, including Strongyloides stercoralis, was examined using a comprehensive laboratory approach in a community in north-western Ethiopia. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 792 individuals ≥5 years old in randomly selected houses in a rural district. Stools were examined using three techniques: a formol-ether concentration, the Baermann technique and a real time polymerase chain reaction test (these last two specific for S. stercoralis). Statistical analyses were performed between two large age groups, children (≤14 years old) and adults (≥15 years old). The prevalence of helminths was 91.3%; (95% CI: 89.3-93.3%). Hookworm was the most prevalent, 78.7% (95% CI 75.6-81.4%), followed by S. stercoralis 55.7% (95% CI 52.2-59.1%). Co-infection with both was detected in 45.4% (95% CI 42.0-49.0%) of the participants. The mean age of hookworm-infected individuals was significantly higher than non-infected ones (p = 0.003). Also, S. stercoralis infection was significantly associated with age, being more prevalent in adults (p = 0.002). This is the highest prevalence of S. stercoralis detected in Ethiopia so far. Our results highlight the need of searching specifically for infection by this parasite since it usually goes unnoticed if helminth studies rely only on conventional diagnostic techniques, i.e. Kato-Katz. Moreover, the focus of these programs on children undermines the actual prevalence of hookworm. The adult population acts as a reservoir for both hookworm and S. stercoralis and this fact may negatively impact the current control programs in Ethiopia which only target treatment of school aged children. This reservoir, together with a lack of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene, increases the probability of re-infection in children. Finally, the high prevalence of S. stercoralis found calls for a comprehensive diagnostic approach in endemic areas in addition to a revision of control measures that is, adding ivermectin to current albendazole/mebendazole, since it is the drug of choice for S. stercoralis.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was funded by the Mundo Sano Foundation and the Spanish Network on Tropical Diseases Research (Red de Investigación cooperativa de Enfermedades Tropicales-RICET RD12/0018/0001. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science (PLOS) es_ES
dc.type.hasVersionVoRes_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleEpidemiology of intestinal helminthiases in a rural community of Ethiopia: Is it time to expand control programs to include Strongyloides stercoralis and the entire community?es_ES
dc.typejournal articlees_ES
dc.rights.licenseAtribución 4.0 Internacional*
dc.identifier.pubmedID32497042es_ES
dc.format.volume14es_ES
dc.format.number6es_ES
dc.format.pagee0008315es_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pntd.0008315es_ES
dc.contributor.funderFundación Mundo Sano 
dc.contributor.funderRETICS-Investigación colaborativa en Enfermedades Tropicales (RICET-ISCIII) (España) 
dc.description.peerreviewedes_ES
dc.identifier.e-issn1935-2735es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008315es_ES
dc.identifier.journalPLoS neglected tropical diseaseses_ES
dc.repisalud.centroISCIII::Centro Nacional de Medicina Tropicales_ES
dc.repisalud.centroISCIII::Centro Nacional de Microbiologíaes_ES
dc.repisalud.institucionISCIIIes_ES
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu_repo/grantAgreement/ES/RD12/0018/0001es_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accesses_ES


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