RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES INFECTION AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN JUHAYNA CITY, SOHAG, UPPER EGYPT | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||
| Article 19, Volume 49, Issue 2, August 2019, Pages 405-408 PDF (235.04 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2019.68163 | ||
| Authors | ||
| AMAL M. AHMED1; NASR EL DEEN M. M. ALI2 | ||
| 1Departments of Medical Parasitology, Faculties of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt. | ||
| 2Al-Azhar University, Assiut Branch, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by airway hyper responsiveness and reversible airflow obstruction that fluctuates over time. Parasitic infection is one of the environmental factors associated with a small increase in bronchial asthmatic risk. In the present study, 200 stool samples were collected from patients suffering from bronchial asthma and 200 stool samples from non-asthmatic healthy volunteers as control group. The samples were preserved in 10% formalin and examined macroscopically, microscopically by direct smear & formol ether sedimentation techniques. It was found that 12/200 cases (6%) were infected with Ascaris lumbricoides in asthmatic group and 2/200 cases (1%) in control (P = 0.007) illustrating significant difference between cases and control group indicating a role of Ascaris lumbricoides as a risk factor for bronchial asthma. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| bronchial asthma; Ascaris lumbricoides; Juhayna; Sohag | ||
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