[Enteric parasitic disease in children under 5 years of age, indigenous and non-indigenous, from rural communities in Paraguay].

Background: Official figures of mortality in children under five years of age in the Americas, report that infectious and parasitic diseases caused most of the deaths.

Objective: To evaluate the frequency of intestinal parasites in vulnerable children, indigenous and non-indigenous, and their socio-environmental characteristics.

Patients And Methods: We evaluated 247 children under five years of age, of both sexes.

Candidal thrombophlebitis of central veins: case report and review.

Although candidemia and central catheter septic thrombosis is quite common, central veins thrombophlebitis caused by Candida spp. is a rarely reported complication in critically ill patients. Here we report a case of thrombophlebitis of the right internal jugular and subclavian veins due to Candida albicans which occurred in a patient admitted in the intensive care unit for major trauma.