PARASITIC INFECTION AMONG CHILDREN LESS THAN 5 YEARS IN RURAL POPULATION OF EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH
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Parasitic infections affect around 3.5 billion people worldwide hence one of the most common causes of infectious disease. They cause health problem ranging from abdominal pain, diarrhoea, general malaise and weakness along with impaired growth. [1,2,3]
An approximately two lakh deaths are reported each year due to intestinal parasitic infection. [4] Infections like giardiasis, ascariasis, amoebiasis, hookworm infection, and trichuriasis are the commonest infections that leads to iron-deficiency anaemia, chronic diarrhoea, seizures, portal hypertension, and impaired physical development in children along with other comorbidities [5,6]
The magnitude of the parasitic infection among children needs to be carefully monitored. There have been multiple studies regarding parasitic infection among school going children but limited data is involved in children less than 5 years specially in rural area.
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Chandrim Sengupta
Assciate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Dr. KNS Memorial Institute of Medical Sciences, Ayodhya Road, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
Sarver Jahan
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences, Banthara, Kanpur Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Shreya Singh
MBBS (Intern), Dr. KNS Memorial Institute of Medical Sciences, Ayodhya Road, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh