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Intestinal parasitic infections in chronic psychiatric patients in Sina Hospital Shahre-Kord, Iran
Background: Although the number of infectious diseases has sharply decreased in last few
decades, parasitic diseases persist in developing countries. On the other hand, chronic
psychiatric patients tend to have low self-control, poor personal hygiene, long term
institutionalization and extremely low self-care should be monitored for parasitic diseases
since psychosocial conditions can contribute to an affinity for infectious diseases