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PROTOZOAL ETIOLOGY OF ACUTE AND PERSISTENT DIARRHEA IN CHILDREN IN AL-SOWERA CITY IN IRAQ | ||
| AL-TAQANI | ||
| Article 1, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 57-64 | ||
| Author | ||
| Shayma A. Mahmud | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aim of this study was to investigate the protozoal causes and their prevalence rate among diarrheic children with an age range of 0-60 months. Six hundred stool samples were collected from the General Hospital of Al-Sowera (the Wasit governorate-Iraq), and were analyzed for the presence of pathogenic protozoa. The prevalence of pathogenic protozoa was 208 cases representing 34.6% of the total diarrheic stool specimens. The № of infected cases with Endameba histolytica was 96 which represent the highest percentage (16%) among the total diarrheic stool specimens, followed by Giardia lamblia which was 66 cases (11%) and Cryptosporidium parvum which was 14 cases (2.3%). No significant variation in the prevalence rate between males and females was noticed (P= or< 0.0001), however, a significant variation in the prevalence rate according to the age groups was recorded (P > 0.01) in which the highest rate was noticed among the age group of 0-20 months. All non-pathogenic intestinal protozoa that were detected in the stool samples were not included in the results of this study. | ||
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