RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS INFECTION AND PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES IN CHILDREN AT SOHAG GOVERNORATE, EGYPT | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||
| Article 20, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 633-638 PDF (234.49 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2015.97561 | ||
| Authors | ||
| SALAH M. M. HUSSIEN1; MOHAMMAD A. A. TAHA1; EMAN Kh. OMRAN2 | ||
| 1Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Assuit Branch, Egypt. | ||
| 2Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A cohort of children presented with pelvic inflammatory diseases (gastro-intestinal and/or genitourinary surgical conditions) and had concomitant infection with E. vermicularis. To find out this relationship, a total of 135 patients suffering from different gastro-intestinal and genitourinary surgical conditions were selected from Departments of Surgery and Gynecology. They were subjected to stool analysis, peri-anal swabs and blood examination mainly for eosinophilia. The results showed that 26 patients out of 135 (19.2%) had. E. vermicularis with high eosinophilia in 30 cases (22.2%). Identification of E. vermicularis by peri-anal swab test in the cohort was successful (16.30%). Males were more affected than females with ratio 2.2:1 and age mean 7.13±1.92. As to residence and housing, rural children with bad housing (73.08% & 88.46% respectively) were more affected than those living in urban areas with healthy housing (26.92% and 11.54% respectively ). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Egypt; children; Enterobius vermicularis; pelvic inflammatory diseases | ||
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