Studies on the Giardiasis as the Zoonosis

ARASHIMA Yasutomo, KUMASAKA Kazunari, KAWANO Kinya, ASANO Ryuji, HOKARI Shigeo, MURASUGI Eiji, IWASHITA Eiichi, NISHIKAWA Syoichirou, MATSUO Katsunori

doi:10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.66.1062

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Zoonosisとしてのジアルジア症に関する研究
Studies on the giardiasis as the zoonosis. III Prevalence of Giardia among the dogs and the owners in Japan
III. Prevalence of<I>Giardia</I> among the Dogs and the Owners in Japan
III. 本邦におけるイヌおよび飼育者のジアルジア保有状況

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To obtain the basic data on the route of Giardia infection as zoonosis, of many regions in Japan, the feces from 2218 dogs were examined for detection of Giardia cysts. Giardia cysts were detected in 239 of the 2218 dogs (10.9%), which was the same as previous reports from America.None were found from the owners of 51 dogs in which Giardia cysts were detected. The detection rates of each facilities were, 68 of 366 (18.6%) from the breeder's kennels, 169 of 1811 (9.3%) in individual houses, 2 of 42 (4.9%) from research institutes. The detection rate of the breeder's kennels was higher than the other two facilities (p<0.05, p<0.001). The detection rates of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures among 17 regions in Japan were higher than the others (p<0.001, p<0.05). Especially in Shizuoka, the rate of the individual houses was higher than from breeder's kennels. In kanagawa the rates of the individual houses and the breeder's kennels were higher than the mean in Japan (p<0.001). Therefore one must instruct the breeders when teaching health education to included zoonosis, and that the detection rate of the age groups of less than 3 years old was high-221 of 1276 (17.3%).<BR>Since the detection rates of Giardia cysts in the dogs were low, the possibility that human infection acquired from dogs was low. However, some of patients with giardiasis we encountered had never been abroad, and it is not yet clear whether Giardia is strictly host specific or not, so attention should be paid to the possibility of cross-infection between man and animals.

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Kansenshogaku Zasshi

Kansenshogaku Zasshi 66 (8), 1062-1066, 1992

The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

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CRID: 1390282680023337088

NII Article ID: 130004112396

DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.66.1062

COI: 1:STN:280:DyaK3s%2FhvVWlsA%3D%3D

ISSN: 1884569X; 03875911; http://id.crossref.org/issn/07711107

PubMed: 1402110

Article Type: journal article

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