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Unlike other intestinal parasitic infections such as giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis, the epidemiology of blastocystosis in children who live in crowded settings such as day-care centers and orphanages has been rarely explored.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A retrospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate incidence and risk factors of\n                      <jats:italic>Blastocystis<\/jats:italic>\n                      infection in an orphanage every two consecutive months during April 2003 to April 2004, in Bangkok, Thailand.\n                      <jats:italic>Blastocystis<\/jats:italic>\n                      sp. was identified using direct simple smear, and\n                      <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                      cultivation in Jones' medium.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The incidence rate was 1.8\/100 person-months and the independent risk factors associated with\n                      <jats:italic>Blastocystis<\/jats:italic>\n                      infection were age, nutritional status and orphans living in the room where their childcare workers were infected.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Person-to-person transmission was most likely to occur either from orphans to childcare workers or from childcare workers to orphans living in the same room. 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