TITLE:
Prevalence of Two Gastrointestinal Parasites Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia within Samarra City, Iraq
AUTHORS:
Ayoub A. Bazzaz, Ouhood M. Shakir, Raghad H. Alabbasy
KEYWORDS:
Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, Samarra, Iraq, Total Protein Deficiency, Blood Parameters
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.8 No.11,
November
10,
2017
ABSTRACT: The prevalence of two gastrointestinal parasites the
Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia parasites and their impact on some blood parameters, i.e. packed cell volume (PCV),
hemoglobin (Hb%) and total protein (TP) of a total 780 patients (children and
adults) admitted to Samarra General Hospital were assessed. Samples of fresh
feces were collected in normal physiological saline and examined using Olympic
microscopes. The frequency of the parasite E. histolytica was 12.8% (46.3% male and 53.6% female). The highest frequency of infection
of E. histolytica (13.8%) was found at age group (1 -
5 years old) followed by 41 years old). The highest rate of infection (33.9%) was found in
September and the lowest (2.2%) in January. Similarly, the general infection
frequency of the parasite G. lamblia was 3.9% with the
highest rate at ages 1 - 20 years old and the lowest rate was 7.3% for >50
years old. The monthly, highest rate of infection (5.2%) was in August and
least (2.2%) in January (2.2%). The frequency of total protein (TPD) in the
blood relevant to the presence of parasite E. histolytica and G. lamblia was 4.6% and 1%, respectively. It is concluded that the above two parasites are
the most common gastrointestinal parasite in Iraq whose pathogenesis to be
which is likely to escalate during the summer seasons and at low hygienic services environment. There has been
an irrelevance neither to anemia nor
total protein deficiency. It is recommended that Ministry of Health in Iraq should not share the global idea of defining
the giardiasis as a neglected disease.