Diagnostic and epidemiological study on Leishmania donovani by using Bone Marrow Examination and Dipstick test in Thi-Qar governorate

Abbas Al-Abady, Fadhil

	Diagnostic and epidemiological study on Leishmania donovani by using Bone Marrow Examination and Dipstick test in Thi-Qar governorate
journal of al-qadisiyah for pure science(quarterly)
Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11 PDF (0 K)
Author
Fadhil Abbas Al-Abady
Abstract
The present study was done on Visceral Leishmaniasis from both diagnostic and epidemiological aspect, and included 158 person in Thi-Qar governorate and them aged between Two months to nine years for period from July 2006 up to June 2007 . The result of present study referred to infect 143 of 158 person 90.51% , infected male percentage was higher than that of female , the number of infected males was 79 (55.24 %) and that of females was 64 (44.76 %) and the highest rate of infected was found in age of (12-7) month 41.96% and the lowest rate of infected was in age of (6-2) month 9.09 % , The geographical distribution of infected cases was referred to the highly rate of infected cases found in Al-Shattra 27 (18.88 %) and the lowly rate of infected cases was in Al-Batthaa 1 (0.7%) . The most clinical features of VL were fever , anemia , splenomegaly , hepatomegaly , cough , lose appetite , vomiting and those rates were : (100 % , 95.8 % , 89.51 % , 76.22 % , 58.74 % , 53.84 % , 38.46 %) consequently . Bone marrow examination was used to diagnose 58 cases and the result showed 38 (65.52 %) out of 58 cases were positive and the Dipstick test (rK39) revealed that 143 (90.51 %) out of 158 cases had sero positive results.

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