Incidence of intestinal parasitic infections among random samples at Al- Aziziyah hospital in Wasit province/Iraq

Abstract

The study is designed to identify intestinal parasitic infections examined at Al-Aziziyah Hospital in Wasit Governorate in Iraq. In this study, a total of (460) internal and external patients were monitored for intestinal parasitic infections. All stool samples were analyzed by the direct method (microscopic exam.) to discover the trophozoite stages and cyst stages for intestinal protozoan parasites. The most incidence parasites in different sex, area residence and different age groups. Out of ( 460) patient sample were infected with 217 at a percentage of (47.17%), 101(46.5%) were for males and 116 (53.5%) were for females. It was found that the numbers and percentages of a single (one type of parasite) and double (two type of parasite) infections were 207(95.4 %), 10 (4.6 %) respectively. Intestinal parasitic infections were found in (95.4 %) of the study population (17.9 % 1-5 age). E. histolytica was more common among the positive samples collected from intestinal parasitic species detected in this work. The prevalence of parasitic infection was significantly higher among younger age groups compared with older age groups. The age group 55 years had the highest incidence rate (17.9%) compared with other age groups (7.8%). The distribution of parasitic diseases between rural areas was 66.4% and urban areas was 33.6%. In conclusion, the incidence of intestinal parasitic infection among random sample demands improvement of health education with environmental sanitation and quality of water sources.

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“…Our results showed that male children (3-7 years old) of rural areas are more positivity than other opposite groups of risk factors; which similarly to those observed by other researchers [12,15,21], but in contrast to those reported by others [11,24,28]. This variation might be attributed to method and criteria of sampling, differences in environmental and socio-ecological conditions, as well as health status and level of immunity of participants.…”

“…In this study, traditional diagnostic methods reported that the prevalence rate of intestinal parasites among the gastrointestinal disordered patients aged ≤20 years was 59.5%. Comparatively, the prevalence rate of IPs in Wasit province 47.7% by Rahi and Majeed [11], 47.17% by Jaffar et al [12], 61.6% by Ahmed et al [15]; whereas in other provinces, there were 55.6% in Sulaimani [20], 89.16% in Baghdad [21], 22.27% in Duhok [22], 18.93% in Karbala [23], and 36.83% in Al-Najaf [24].…”

“…In acutely and chronically infections, individuals might asymptomatic or appeared with mild, moderate and sever signs; therefore, typical diagnosis relies on the microscopic detection of eggs, larval, trophozoite, cyst, and / or oocyst life stages in collected fecal samples on separate days remains the more common and available method as it simple, easy to perform and cheap assay [9,10]. In Wasit province (Iraq), several studies have been performed to detect of Ips [11][12][13], using of different diagnostic assays [14,15]; but with limited information. Hence, the current study was aimed to identify the prevalence of IPs in gastrointestinal disordered patients, with detecting the relationship of IPs to hematological and some epidemiological parameters.…”

Parasitic contamination of some fresh and collected vegetables from Mosul City markets

“…It is noticed in the table (2 and 3) that the rate of contamination in both sides was high by G. lamblia and E. histolytica, this may be due to the appropriate environmental conditions for developing these phases and this type of parasites which transports by water and food and by the mechanical transporter (flies), or due to shitting near vegetable farms in addition to using stools for fertilizing beside washing vegetables by water contaminated with parasites cysts [20][21][22][23][24] .…”