tudy of parasitic infestations in school children living in tala menoufiya governorate, Egypt.

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Background: Parasitic infestation constitutes a major cause of worldwide morbidity and mortality.

Parasitic infestations occur in all geographic regions of the world, especially in the developing countries. Aims : the aim of the study is to evaluate the prevalence of parasitic infestations in school aged children living in Tale- Menoufiya governorate and its effect on general health status.

Also to evaluate the value of repeated stool analysis and efficacy of ant parasitic drugs. Methods : this study was carried out on 3000 Egyptian children of school age between 6- 13 years including primary and preparatory school living in Tala-Menoufiya Governorate.

1380 children (46 %) were males and 1620 (54 %) were females.

Exclusion criteria are children below the age of 6 years old.

Children complaining from chronic diarrhea or associated systemic diseases.

All children were subjected to history taking, clinical examination, measurement of weight and height, urine and stool analysis and HB%. Results : the results of our study showed that, prevalence of parasitic infestation was 71.8%.

The commonest helminthic infection was E vermicular is 36.5% followed by safaris (9.3%), H.

nana (8.6%), strongyloides (0.7%) ancylostoma (0.4%), and S.

mansion (0.1%).

The commonest protocol infection was giardia in (16.4%) followed by E histolytic a tin (12.9%).

Social standard were shown to have a significant impact on prevalence of parasitic infestation especially for distribution of E.

vermicular is, Hymenolepis nana.

Recurrent abdominal pain was the most common symptoms and pallor was the most common sign among the examined children.

Negative results of stool analysis were detected in 55.6% after the 1st examination while 28.2% after 3rd examination with false negative rate in the 1st time 27.4%.

Weight and height were significantly reduced in infected children.

Anemia was significantly found in infected children (46.4%) compared to 15% in non-infected children.

The efficacy of ant parasitic therapy is 94.6%.

Conclusion: Our study showed that, prevalence of parasitic infection among studied children was high specially in low socioeconomic classes, repeated stool examination for diagnosis "of ^parasitic infection is valuable not to miss positive cases.