Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2021)

Parasitic Disease Surveillance, Mississippi, USA

  • Richard S. Bradbury,
  • Meredith Lane,
  • Irene Arguello,
  • Sukwan Handali,
  • Gretchen Cooley,
  • Nils Pilotte,
  • John M. Williams,
  • Sam Jameson,
  • Susan P. Montgomery,
  • Kathryn Hellmann,
  • Michelle Tharp,
  • Lisa Haynie,
  • Regina Galloway,
  • Bruce Brackin,
  • Brian Kirmse,
  • Lisa Stempak,
  • Paul Byers,
  • Steven Williams,
  • Fazlay Faruque,
  • Charlotte V. Hobbs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2708.204318
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 8
pp. 2201 – 2204

Abstract

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Surveillance for soil-transmitted helminths, strongyloidiasis, cryptosporidiosis, and giardiasis was conducted in Mississippi, USA. PCR performed on 224 fecal samples for all soil-transmitted helminths and on 370 samples for only Necator americanus and Strongyloides stercoralis identified 1 S. stercoralis infection. Seroprevalences were 8.8% for Toxocara, 27.4% for Cryptosporidium, 5.7% for Giardia, and 0.2% for Strongyloides parasites.

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