PARASITOLOGICAL STUDIES AMONG EGYPTIAN PATIENTS ATTENDED DIAGNOSTIC & RESEARCH UNIT OF PARASITIC DISEASES, KASR AL-AINY TEACHING HOSPITALS: A FIVE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE STUDY | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Volume 52, Issue 2, August 2022, Page 295-300 PDF (742.81 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2022.257458 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| DINA S. NASR1; ABEER SAID ABDEL-GHANY AL- ANTABLY1; MOUSA A. M. ISMAIL1; MARWA M. ZEIN2; SHIMAA MOHAMMED ABDEL AAL1 | ||||
| 1Department of Medical Parasitology | ||||
| 2Department of Public Health and Community | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This is a retrospective study on recorded parasitic infections for in- and outpatients attended Diagnostic & Research Unit of Parasitology, Medical Parasitology Department, Kasr Al-Ainy Teaching Hospitals from 2017 to 2021. A total of 10557 samples were examined for parasites, Helicobacter pylori antigen detection and occult blood in stool. Stool samples (21%) were infected with 15 species of intestinal parasites. These were Blastocystis hominis (13%), Giardia lamblia (3%), Entamoeba histolytica (3%), Entamoeba coli (1%), mixed infections (1.6%), H. pylori co-infection (2%), and occult blood with parasites (0.3%). Male to female infection ratio was 50.3% to 49.7%. The highest prevalence season of infection was autumn (31.5%). But, all these results were statistically non-significant (p>0.05). | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Greater Cairo; Outpatients; Prevalence; Parasites; H. pylori; occult blood | ||||
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