La sanidad en Guatemala
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s.d.1946
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Owing to changes in governmental politics, during 1944 the health department of Guatemala had three different directors and all services were placed under military rule in June In 163,116 cases of malaria and other endemic diseases, 542,636 treatments were furnished. The Central Malaria Service made 6,617 blood examinations of which 1,798 were positive. In the Dispensary, 5,101 cases were examined of which 58.4 per cent were positive for P. vivax; 30 per cent P. falciparum; 3.1 per cent P. malariae and 8.5 per cent both for P. vivax and P. falciparum. Of these 1,107 cases apparently were contracted in Guatemala City In the Intestinal Parasite Laboratory 8,144 coprological examinations were made, of which 3,837 (52.83 per cent) were positive, the ascaris predominating with 2,390 (49.71 per cent) cases; Trichuris 586 (11.94 per cent); hookworm 107 (2.18 per cent); Taenia solium 68 (1.38 per cent); T. saginata 74 (1.52 per cent); T. nana 219 (4.46 per cent); Oxyuris 56 (1.16 per cent); Strongylus 40 (0.81 per cent); Amoeba histolytica 125 (2.54 per cent); A. coli 65 (1.37 per cent); Iodamoeba 16 (0.32 per cent); Lamblia intestinalis 564 (11.49 per cent); Trichomonas 455 (9.27 per cent); Chilomastix mesnili 81 (1.65 per cent); Balantidium coli 4 (0.08 per cent); and Blastocystis hominis 55 (1.10 per cent) The campaign against onchocerciasis was carried out by the Filariology Service in coope... (AU) El último trabajo de Sanidad en Guatemala apareció en el Boletín p. 294 abr. 1944
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Public Health in Guatemala
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