Występowanie i obraz kliniczny parazytoz u pacjentów Kliniki Chorób Zakaźnych AM w Białymstoku w latach 1975-1986

Within 12 years among 21.024 patients hospitalized in the Clinic of Infectious Diseases of the Medical Academy parasitoses were recognized in 485, i.e. 2.3%. The numbers testify to the importance of the problem of parasitoses in that region of Poland. The most frequent parasitoses of the Białystok region are at present giardiasis and taeniasis, most of all in inhabitants of towns, and within the last years also diseases introduced from the tropics - amebiasis, malaria and intestinal trematodosis.