A Retrospective Study of Ectoparasitosis in Patients Referred to Imam Reza Hospital of Mashhad, Iran

作者：Berenji Fariba^*; Marvi Moghadam Narges; Meibodi Parisa Naghibozakerin

来源：Biomed Research International, 2014, 2014: 104018.

DOI：10.1155/2014/104018

This cross-sectional study was performed on all patients suspected to be suffering from ectoparasites who were referred to the parasitology laboratory of Imam Reza Hospital of Mashhad during 15 years (April 1995 to April 2010). All patients' data were collected from the questionnaires and then analyzed statistically. From 1814 suspected patients to be suffering from ectoparasites, 375 patients had scabies and, 99 suffer from pediculosis. The mean age of patients was 26/18 +/- 17/68. The most common age of scabies was 10-19 (27/7%) and pediculosis 0-9(9/6%) (P value= 0.00). The highest incidence of pediculosis was in women (3.6%) and scabies in men (13.7%) (P value= 0.00). Pediculosis is more common in children (9/9%) and scabies in workers (and pediculosis were more prevalent in patients from Razavi Khorasan Province with 18.7% and 5%, respectively (P value = 0.08).

• 出版日期2014