An Eighteen-Year Study of intestinal Protozoans in the Los Angeles Area Between 1996 and 2013.

INTESTINES; PROTOZOA; NEMATODE infections; SEASONAL temperature variations; BIOLOGICAL classification

The article informs that Parasitological studies of large patient populations are rare in the U.S. compared to third-world countries where endemic parasitosis. Topics include trends of human parasitosis in the U.S.; and prevalence of 19 species of intestinal parasites infecting examined patients from infections with helminth parasites such as Ascaris lumbricoides and non-major protozoans.