Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among children in Diyala province

Other Title(s)

انتشار الاصابات الطفيلية المعوية بين الأطفال في محافظة ديالى

Joint Authors

Husayn, Rawa Abd al-Khaliq
Mahdi, Abd Allah Falih

Source

مجلة ديالى للعلوم الزراعية

Publisher

University of Diyala College of Agriculture

Publication Date

2018-12-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

12

Main Subjects

Agriculture

Topics

• Abdomen
• Pain
• Diyala
• Giardia lamblia
• Ascaris lumbricoides
• Entamoeba histolytica

English Abstract

Intestinal protozoan parasites consider as important parasite that infect human, and there are high infection rate in human in word.

To detect distribution of intestinal parasites from children with diarrhea in Baqubah / Diyala province.

This study was conducted in the Al-Batool Teaching Hospital in Diyala province, from August 2017 to December 2017.

The patients suffering from diarrhea with different gastrointestinal complaints were included in the present study, the age range was between 2 months to 18 years.

Stool samples were collected from each patients use for: Microscopic examination.

The Microscopy detected 45 cases of parasitic infection among 120 diarrheal child, the overall prevalence of infection was 37.5% .

The highest prevalence (71.4% ) was recorded among the 1-5 years age group with 26 infection in males was higher than in females 19.

Overall, protozoa infections (73% ) were higher than the helminthes infections (26.9% ).

Entamoeba histolytica (55.5% ) and Giardia lamblia (17.7% ) were the commonest intestinal protozoan identified, Enterobius vermicularis and Ascaris lumbricoides and Taenia spp.

were the most common helminths detected with a prevalence rate of 13.3% and 8.8% , and 4.4% respectively.

The rate of abdominal pain was the most frequency clinical aspect of parasitic infections which appeared in 18 (40% ) cases, the highest incidence was in August with 15 cases, while with only 2 cases in December.

Most common co-infection is between giardiasis cases and E.

histolytica/ dispar with 5 cases (11.1% ), while 2 (4.4% ) cases of co-infection among giardiasis with E.

vermicularis.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-1136574

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