Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Parazitoloji Anabilim Dalı, Aydın, Türkiye
Turkiye Parazitol Derg. 2023 Jun 29;47(2):100-104. doi: 10.4274/tpd.galenos.2023.22438.
The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in our country in March 2020, has caused a sudden and dramatic change in our habits. As a result of the pandemic measures directly effective in the transmission of parasites, it has become important to investigate the possible effect of the COVID-19 pandemic process on the incidence of intestinal parasites.
In order to examine the situation before and after the pandemic, all stool and cellophane tape test results examined from March 11, 2018 to March 11, 2022 in Aydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Medicine Parasitology Laboratory were evaluated retrospectively. The relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics of the cases, the distribution of the months and years of diagnosis and the prevalence of parasites were also evaluated.
Of the 13,036 stool samples examined, 67.42% belong to the pre-pandemic and 32.58% belong to the post-pandemic period. In total, 1.959 stool samples were positive for at least one parasite, of which 71.41% were from the pre-pandemic. spp. was the most frequently detected parasite both before (14.63%) and after the pandemic (12.59%). Of the 3.194 cellophane tape examined, 72.32% belonged to the pre-pandemic and 27.68% post-pandemic period, and eggs were detected in 246 (7.70%) of all. The majority of positive samples (82.11%) were belonged to the pre-pandemic period. The number and positivity rates of stool and cellophane tape samples examined in the post-pandemic period showed a significant decrease (p<0.05).
It was observed that the incidence of intestinal parasites decreased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Important developments in terms of public health, such as measures such as social distance and quarantine during the pandemic process, increased sensitivity to personal hygiene, and informing the public through various tools during the pandemic, are thought to be the reason for the decrease in the prevalence of intestinal parasites.
2020 年 3 月在我国爆发的 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行，导致我们的习惯突然发生了巨大变化。由于大流行措施直接有效控制寄生虫的传播，因此研究 COVID-19 大流行过程对肠道寄生虫发病率的可能影响变得很重要。
为了检查大流行前后的情况，我们回顾性评估了 2018 年 3 月 11 日至 2022 年 3 月 11 日在阿德南·曼德列斯大学医学院寄生虫学实验室检查的所有粪便和透明胶带测试结果。还评估了病例的社会人口统计学特征、诊断月份和年份的分布以及寄生虫流行率之间的关系。
在检查的 13036 份粪便样本中，67.42%属于大流行前，32.58%属于大流行后。总共有 1959 份粪便样本至少有一种寄生虫呈阳性，其中 71.41%来自大流行前。在大流行前后， spp.都是最常检测到的寄生虫，分别为 14.63%和 12.59%。在检查的 3194 份透明胶带中，72.32%属于大流行前，27.68%属于大流行后，所有样本中检测到 卵 246 个（7.70%）。阳性样本的大多数（82.11%）属于大流行前。大流行后检查的粪便和透明胶带样本数量和阳性率显著下降（p<0.05）。
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，观察到肠道寄生虫的发病率显著下降。大流行过程中的公共卫生的重要发展，如社交距离和检疫等措施、个人卫生意识的提高以及通过各种工具向公众传播信息等，被认为是肠道寄生虫流行率下降的原因。
