Title
A comparison of the risk for chronic fascioliasis between children 3 to 5 years and children 6 to 12 years of age in the Cusco Region of Peru
Date Issued
01 September 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abstract
School-age children bear the highest burden of fascioliasis in endemic countries. Few studies have addressed Fasciola in preschool children. We performed a secondary data analysis using two Fasciola databases from Cusco, Peru, comparing preschoolers with elementary school children. We included 2,630 children, 50% were female, the median age was 8.4 years (interquartile range [IQR] 6.1–10.5), and 15% (396/2,630) were, 5 years of age. Children, 5 years were less likely to be infected with Fasciola hepatica (P 5 0.008) and Hymenolepis nana (P, 0.001) and more likely to have anemia (P, 0.001) and a lower median height for age Z (HAZ) score (P 5 0.002). Fascioliasis was less common in younger children, but this group may be at higher risk for chronic complications caused by fascioliasis.
Start page
684
End page
687
Volume
105
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Medicina tropical
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85115321429
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
Sponsor(s)
Financial support: This work was supported by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (grant number 1R01AI104820-01).
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