[Intestinal parasitism in the adult. Evaluation of 2 years in the University Hospital Center of Sfax].

From copro parasitologic analyses of two years studied between December 1988 and 1990 in the Hospital Center of the University of Sfax, the authors determined the intestinal parasites profile observed in adults. This intestine parasitism is mainly of protozoair type dominated by the amebae and Giardia intestinalis. The helminthes are rarely found. Strongyloides stercoralis of an epidemiology unknown in the region was revealed in some patients submitted to an immunosuppressive therapy. The adult cestodes as well as in Child doesn't seen to constitute a major parasitism in Sfax.