Status of parasite diseases in patients visiting at Hai Phong Medical University Hospital

Abstract

Parasitic diseases transmitted from animals to humans are increasingly of concern, in which the seroprevalence of canine and feline roundworm larvae has a high seroprevalence rate, affecting people's lives, especially when the larvae migrate to important organs such as the eyes and nerves. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 172 patients visiting Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital with the aim of describing the status of parasitic diseases over a 1-year period from September 2023 to August 2024. The results were as follows: The rate of parasitic diseases was 55.8%, in which Toxocara spp mono-infection accounted for 65.3%, Fasciola spp infection was 6.9%, Strongyloides stercoralis infection was 5.0%, Gnathostoma spp infection was 2.0% and multiple infections with many types of parasites was 20.8%; Toxocara canis and catis infections are mainly distributed in aged 20 - < 50, more common in women than men, more common in cities than in rural areas; 7.1% of patients showed signs of leukocytosis, 4.8% of patients showed signs of eosinophilia, 13.1% of patients had increased AST and 11.9% of patients had increased ALT; The average optical density of anti-Toxocara spp. IgG was low at 0.79  ± 0.53.