The efficiency of duodenal aspirate in the diagnosis of parasitosis and candidiasis

Abstract EN

-A hundred patients presenting with dyspepsia and / or symptoms suggestingparasitosis/candidiasis were subjected to oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy (OGD) in the Endos-copy Unit of Basrah Teaching Hospital.

Duodenal ulcers were found in 23 % of them.

Duodenal aspirate and stool samples were taken and examined microscopically for para-sitosis and candidiasis.

Examination of duodenal aspirates revealed the presence of Giardia lamblia in 15 % of the cases, B.

hominis in 5 %, c.

parvuin in 4 % and Candida spp.

in 16 % ; the respective figures for those microorgan-isms in stool samples were 8 %, 12 %, 2 % and 7 %.

There was no characteristic pH level oftlie duodenal aspirate in {relation to parasitosis, candidiasis or endoscopic findings.