Study on Intestinal Infections by Parasite and Some Bacteria among Elderly People of Kathmandu Valley

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dc.contributor.authorShakya, Bikash
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-22T09:36:01Z
dc.date.available2022-03-22T09:36:01Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractPresent study was carried out among the elderly people (60+ years of age) from August 2005 to July 2006 in Kathmandu Valley. Stool samples were collected from a total of 235 elderly people (122 from government elderly home, 66 from private elderly home and 47 from a rural community (i.e those not living in elderly homes). Samples were proceeded for the required studies. The overall prevalence of intestinal parasites was found to be 41.7%, out of which 30.6% had multiple parasitism. The elderly people at government elderly home had higher parasitic prevalence (50.8%) followed by the elderly people of rural community (46.8%) and those at private elderly homes (21.2%) (P<0.05). Males were marginally more infected (43.8%) than female (40.4%) (P>0.05) and nearly equal protozoal and helminthic infection were found in both the genders. Trichuris trichiura (39.4%) was the commonest helminth and Entamoeba histolytica (19.7%) was the commonest protozoa found. Indo-Aryans had higher parasitic infection rate than the Tibeto-Burmans (46.9 Vs. 37.1%) (P>0.05). Literate people were less infected (26.2%) than the illiterate people (45.1%) (P<0.05). Likewise, vegetarians were less infected (30.1%) than non-vegetarian (48.0%) (P<0.05). Salmonella spp. in 3 samples and Vibrio spp. in 2 samples were found where as campylobacter spp. and Shigella spp. were found in nobody in the study.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/20.500.14540/9323
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Microbiologyen_US
dc.subjectElderly peopleen_US
dc.subjectElderly homesen_US
dc.subjectIntestinal parasitesen_US
dc.titleStudy on Intestinal Infections by Parasite and Some Bacteria among Elderly People of Kathmandu Valleyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Microbiologyen_US
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