Abstract
Although information on amoebiasis among institutionalized psychiatric patients is available,
reports on the relationship between behaviour and this infection are not abundant. From July
1995 to June 1996, stool and blood samples were collected from 565 patients in three
psychiatric hospitals of North Taiwan. Stool samples were examined using the direct smear and
formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation techniques as well as ProSpecT® Entamoeba histolytica
Microplate Assay kit. Blood samples were examined by the Amebiasis Serology Microwell
ELISA kit. Among these patients, 14 (2·5%) harboured one or two species of intestinal
parasites. There were 6 (1·1%) E. histolytica/E. dispar cyst passers: 5 positive in stool ELISA
test and 2 with antibodies against E. histolytica. Among demographic factors, type of
psychiatric disorder and disability, only a significant sexual difference in seropositivity of
E. histolytica was observed. These findings indicate that the infected patients acquired the
infections before they entered the hospitals.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Epidemiology
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