انتشار الطفيليات المعوية لدى أطفال من محافظة حمص

الملخص EN

This research aimed to study the prevalence of intestinal parasites in a group of children in Homs province, and determination the percentage of species of the parasites in the infected children.

This study, performed between 01/ 01/ 2007 – 31/ 12/ 2009, conducted on 616 children aged between 2-14 years.

The results of study showed that the Parasitic infection rate was 34.25% (30.68% by intestinal protozoa 3.57% by intestinal helminths).

The most important parasite was giardia lamblia.