A study of Intestinal helminthic parasitic infection in Qena governorate inhabitants | ||
| SVU-International Journal of Medical Sciences | ||
| Article 9, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 47-54 PDF (334.43 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/svuijm.2019.120942 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohammed Essa1; Osama Abdellah2; Asmaa M. El-Kady2; Ayat Elsaman* 2 | ||
| 1Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assuit University, Egypt | ||
| 2Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Parasitic diseases continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality. More than three billion people are infected worldwide, mainly in the developing countries. Children are easy prey to parasites. Poverty, illiteracy, poor hygiene, lack of access to potable water, poor public health infrastructure, hot and humid tropical climate are the usual factors associated with intestinal parasitic infections. Parasitic infections, particularly intestinal helminthes, cause hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths each year Objective: To Assessment of the prevalence of parasitic helminthes infection among Qena governorate residents. Patients and method(s): Across sectional study was carried out on 316 patients, 5-50 years attended the outpatient clinics of Qena Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, between August 2017 and August 2018. Stool samples were collected and examined by Direct wet mount and Concentration techniques including sedimentation using saline and formol ethyl acetate. Result(s):In the studied cases, intestinal helminthic parasitic infections were found in 40 (12.5%) cases out of 316 patients. Positive cases were 30 male patients (75%), while 10 female patients (25%), 27 (67.5%) patient out of 197 aged from 5-19 years, 0 (0%) patients out of 70 from 20-34 years and 13 (32.5%) out of 49patientfrom 35-50 years, 10 of patients from urban houses (25%) and 30 of patients from rural houses (75 %),19 (47.5%) were present with abdominal pain , 9 (22.5%) with diarrhea and 12 (30%) with perianal itching Conclusion: Qena governorate suffer from intestinal helminthic parasitic infection mainly in rural areas in children and young adults from 5-19 years old. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| intestinal helminthes; Qena governorate; prevalence | ||
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