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The Intestinal Parasites of Bashiqa District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Bushra S. Al-Naemy
1
, Sundus Al-Kalak
1
, Zohair I.F. Rahemo
2
1 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Nursing, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq
2 Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq
Corresponding authors email:
zohair_rahemo@yahoo.com;
Authors
International Journal of Molecular Zoology, 2012, Vol.2, No.6 doi: 10.5376/ijmz.2012.02.0006
Received: 29 Sep., 2012
Accepted: 29 Sep., 2012
Published: 22 Oct., 2012
Copyright: © 2012, Al-Nawmy et al. This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
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Al-Nawmy et al., 2012,
The Intestinal Parasites of Bashiqa District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Intl. J. of Molecular Zoology, Vol.2, No.6, 51-54 (doi:
10.5376/ijmz.2012.02.0006)
Abstract
An investigation was performed on intestinal parasites in children of Bashika District, suburb of Mosul city and 12 km
northeast of it. A total of 422 stool specimens were examined, 256 from males and 166 from females, the percentage of infection was
60.66% and 39.33%, respectively. The recovered parasites were:
Entamoeba
histolytica
(28.2%),
Giardia
lamblia
(37%),
Hymenolepis
nana
(6.5%),
Taenia
saginata
(2.5%),
Ascaris
lumbricoides
(3.8%),
Enterbius
vermicularis
(15.3%),
Trachiuris
trachura
(1.2%) and
Ancylostoma
duodenale
(5.1%). As regards the difference in gender infection:
E.
histolytica
(14.4% in males
and 8.2% in females),
G. lamblia
(15.4% in males and 14.4% in females),
T. saginata
(2.0% in males and 5.1% in females), the
nematodes 12.3% in males and 7.2% in females. As concern symptoms recorded, diarrhea was the most abundant symptom (36.5% in
males and 24.3% in females), then abstain with abdominal pain (24.3% in males and 18.9% in females). Regarding factors
complaints of parasitic infection: not washing hands before eating was the major factor in increasing parasitic infection (27.7% in
males and 30.2% in females), then come not washing vegetables (22.5% in males and 20.9% in females) in addition to other
socio-economic factors and bad infrastructure of most of the district villages.
Keywords
Parasites; Intestine; Bashiqa-Iraq
Introduction
Although there is a distinct development for medical
services in diagnosing the diseases in human
population in different regions of the World, parasitic
diseases still represent challenges for Health centers
especially for developing and poor countries (Agi, 1995;
Sayyari et al., 2005; Roberts et al., 2009). Furthermore,
the specific geographical and socio-economic status of
the population of the 3
rd
world may have the major
effect in existance of parasitic disease, among other
medical issues (Dieng, 1999).
The importance of parasites is due to its distribution in
large population especially in children in most of the
developing and poor countries, possibly because these
parasites have easy way of transmission such as
Entamoeba
histolytica
,
Giardia
lamblia
,
Ascaris
lumbricoides
, whip worm
Trichuris trichura
, dwarf worm,
Hymenolepis
nana
, and usually infection happen via
food and drunk, polluted vegetables by heavy water,
as in most regions of the world (Dieng, 1999;
Esfandiari et al., 1995).
The incidence of parasitic worms differ from country
to country, in some reports there are 100 million
infection by
A.
lumbricoides
and 900 million by
hookworms such as
A.
duodenale
and 500 million by
T.
trichura
mostly in poor countries (Tchuem, 2003).
In some studies carried out in China, revealed that
47% of those investigated were infected by the pin
worm,
Enterbius vermicularis
, and 18% by
T. trichura
,
and 17.2% by
Taenia
saginata
(Xulq, 1995).
Study the epidemiology of parasite can be considered
the first step to put it under control, thus this represent
the preliminary investigation about intestinal parasites
in Bashika one of the important suburb of Mosul city,
famous of olive cultivation and manufacturing pickles,
situated in north-east of Mosul, 12 km from Mosul
city (36
o
27'N 23
o
21'E 36.45
o
N 43.35
o
E ).