Young Adults in Endemic Areas: An Untreated Group In Need of School-Based Preventive Chemotherapy For Schistosomiasis Control and Elimination

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dc.contributor.authorKorir, Harrison K
dc.contributor.authorRiner, Diana K
dc.contributor.authorKavere, Emmy
dc.contributor.authorOmondi, Amos
dc.contributor.authorLandry, Jasmine
dc.contributor.authorKittur, Nupur
dc.contributor.authorNdombi, Eric M
dc.contributor.authorOndigo, Bartholomew N
dc.contributor.authorSecor, W Evan
dc.contributor.authorKaranja, Diana M. S
dc.contributor.authorColley, Daniel G
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-23T09:49:49Z
dc.date.available2023-03-23T09:49:49Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractParasitologic surveys of young adults in college and university settings are not commonly done, even in areas known to be endemic for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. We have done a survey of 291 students and staff at the Kisumu National Polytechnic in Kisumu, Kenya, using the stool microscopy Kato-Katz (KK) method and the urine point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) test. Based on three stools/two KK slides each, in the 208 participants for whom three consecutive stools were obtained, Schistosoma mansoni prevalence was 17.8%. When all 291 individuals were analyzed based on the first stool, as done by the national neglected tropical disease (NTD) program, and one urine POC-CCA assay (n = 276), the prevalence was 13.7% by KK and 23.2% by POC-CCA. Based on three stools, 2.5% of 208 participants had heavy S. mansoni infections ( 400 eggs/gram feces), with heavy S. mansoni infections making up 13.5% of the S. mansoni cases. The prevalence of the soil-transmitted helminths (STH: Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) by three stools was 1.4%, 3.1%, and 4.1%, respectively, and by the first stool was 1.4%, 2.4% and 1.4%, respectively. This prevalence and intensity of infection with S. mansoni in a college setting warrants mass drug administration with praziquantel. This population of young adults is ‘in school’ and is both approachable and worthy of inclusion in national schistosomiasis control and elimination programs.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe administration, faculty, staff and students of Kisumu Polytechnic Collegeen_US
dc.identifier.citationKorir, H. K., Riner, D. K., Kavere, E., Omondi, A., Landry, J., Kittur, N., ... & Colley, D. G. (2018). Young adults in endemic areas: an untreated group in need of school-based preventive chemotherapy for schistosomiasis control and elimination. Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 3(3), 100.en_US
dc.identifier.other10.3390/tropicalmed3030100
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/24999
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPubMed Centralen_US
dc.subjectschistosomiasisen_US
dc.subjectKato-Katzen_US
dc.subjectPOC-CCAen_US
dc.subjectyoung adultsen_US
dc.subjectsoil-transmitted helminthsen_US
dc.titleYoung Adults in Endemic Areas: An Untreated Group In Need of School-Based Preventive Chemotherapy For Schistosomiasis Control and Eliminationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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