Parasitic disease control in a residential facility for the mentally retarded

S.B. Thacker, S. Simpson, T.J. Gordon, M. Wolfe and A.M. Kimball

American Journal of Public Health, 1979, vol. 69, issue 12, 1279-1281

Abstract: Asymptomatic infection with either Entameba histolytica or Giardia lamblia was found in 61 per cent of the residents of a dormitory in an institution for the mentally retarded; two other dormitories had rates of 20 per cent and 22 per cent. Drug therapy was successfully undertaken in all three dormitories, and environmental improvements were introduced in the heavily infected dormitory. A one year follow-up showed a reduction in parasitic disease in two dormitories but, in the most heavily infected dormitory, infection had returned to pretreatment levels.

Date: 1979
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