- Title
- Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis infection and other soil-transmitted helminths by cross-sectional survey in a rural community in Gisagara District, Southern Province, Rwanda
- Creator
- Tuyizere, Aloys; Ndayambaje, Alphonse; Walker, Timothy D.; Bayingana, Claude; Ntirenganya, Cyprien; Dusabejambo, Vincent; Hale, DeVon C.
- Relation
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Vol. 112, Issue 3, p. 97-102
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try036
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Strongyloides stercoralis is one of the most neglected tropical diseases. Sparse, dated central African and Rwandan data on seroprevalence are available to guide public health efforts and clinical care.In February 2016 we conducted a community-based cross-sectional study among 539 asymptomatic participants in a rural area in the Gisagara District, Southern Province, Rwanda. Direct faecal smear (DFS) and modified Koga agar plate culture (APC) were used to detect S. stercoralis infection in a single stool sample. Data on other soil-transmitted helminths diagnosed by DFS were also recorded.Four intestinal helminth infections were diagnosed, with S. stercoralis (17.4%) and hookworms (8.2%) seen most often. APC, compared with DFS, increased the diagnosis rate for S. stercoralis from 1.9% to 17.4% (p<0.01). The prevalence was higher in farmers and those with lower socio-economic status. Females were less often infected than males (odds ratio 0.6 [95% confidence interval 0.3 to 0.9], p=0.02).S. stercoralis is highly prevalent among the general population in a rural area of Gisagara District, Southern Province, Rwanda. Access to effective diagnosis and treatment is needed for this neglected disease.
- Subject
- epidemiology; helminths; neglected diseases; parasitology; Rwanda; Strongyloides
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386537
- Identifier
- uon:32440
- Identifier
- ISSN:0035-9203
- Rights
- © The Author 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
- Language
- eng
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