[Report of experiences: frequency and significance of intestinal parasitoses in patients at a hospital in the Ethiopian highlands].

Intestinal parasitoses are of greatest importance in health policy in tropical developing countries. On account of the increasing numbers of travellers into these countries and the increasing number of inhabitants of these regions who stay in the GDR for purpose of study or training, these problems gain significance also for us. A report on experiences from Socialist Ethiopia illustrates the problems connected with intestinal parasitoses. A non-selected number of patients of a province hospital in the Ethiopian Highlands was evaluated. An epidemiologically obligatory evidence is of course not possible, but the actual situation is exactly characterized. The demonstration of the frequency of the individual parasites is followed by a short discussion of the main helminthic and protozoic diseases.