PEDIATRICS Vol. 8 No. 4 October 1951, pp. 548-557
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CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS ON TRICHOCEPHALUS TRICHIURUS (WHIPWORM) INFESTATION IN CHILDREN

RODNEY C. JUNG M.D.1 and PAUL C. BEAVER PH.D.1

1 The Departments of Tropical Medicine and Public Health and of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, and the Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.

Of about 2000 hospitalized children whose stools were examined routinely, 18% were infested with Trichocephalus trichiurus. The heavy infestations (over 30,000 eggs/ cc.), which consistently produced diarrhea and dysentery, were most common in children 2 to 4 years of age. A significant correlation existed between worm-burden and incidence of amebiasis.

A successful technic for the treatment of trichocephaliasis is described. The importance to the clinician of measuring worm burden is emphasized.

Submitted on April 4, 1951




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