Study of some epidemiological aspects of giardiasis in North of Baghdad

Abstract EN

Different factors have been examined to be related with the prevalence of Girdiasis in the north of Baghdad in human beings which were (gender, age, occupation, family size, faecal status and presence of domestic animals) during the period from the beginning of April 2009 till the end of March 2010.

This study revealed that the total rate of infection in human being was 11.66 % , and no significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) were noticed between male and female as their rates of infection were 52.32 % and 47.68 % respectively , as well as no significant relation was observed between faecal status and the rate of infection, the percentage of positive cases in diarrheal patients was higher than the non-diarrheal patients who were 74.41 and 25.59 respectively ,while there was significant relation between the presence of domestic animals and prevalence of giardiasis (p ≤ 0.05) ,the infectivity rate reached to 23.25 % in persons who had domestic animals in their household.

Also high infection rate have been recorded among children less than 10 years old which was 51.16 % when it compared with other age groups, as well as preschool children and person belong to family composed of (5-9) individual were observed to be the majority groups that infected with Giardia which were 44.18 % and 50 % respectively, although there were no significant relation (p ≤ 0.05) between each of age, occupation and family size with infectivity rate of Gairdia.