دراسة وبائية و تشخيصية لطفيلي Giardia lamblia لدى المرضى المصابين بالإسهال في محافظة النجف الأشرف

Abstract EN

The Present study was carried out in the Department of Biology - College of Education for Girls - University of Kufa for the period from July 2011 until June 2012 , it aims to study the Epidmiology of the Giardia lamblia parasite by using direct smear Examnation .

The results of microscopic examination of 3383 stool samples , 500 samples are infected by G.

lamblia , with a total percentage of 14.8%.

The results of the statistical analysis showed that there were significant differences at the level of probability P ˂ 0.05 where the rate of infection in the liquid samples was higher than it is in semi-liquid samples, reaching 17.2% and 10.7% respectively.

As the results show the incidence rate of the parasite in males are higher than it in females reached 16.8% and 11.1%, respectively, as well as the spread of infection with the parasite in the rural areas more than the urban area where the ratio was 19.6% and 9.1%, respectively, the results also show that the highest infection rate with the parasite was in the age group aged ( 1ess than year) and the lowest in the group aged (36 -40) years, reaching 28.0% and 10.0%, respectively.

The results also show that the highest percentage of parasite infection was in the September, 44% , while the lowest infection rate was in December, reaching 6.1%.

The results of the current study show that the highest infection rate parasite was in patients in the hospital of Manathira which amounted to 16.5% and that the lower infection rate was among patients of the Medical Al-Sader city hospital, reaching 11.7%.