IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS OF PARASITIC INFECTION AMONG ONE HUNDRED COVID-19 EGYPTIAN PATIENTS | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Volume 52, Issue 3, December 2022, Page 389-394 PDF (732.61 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2022.278054 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MARWA ESMAT MOHAMED1; MOHAMED ALI AWADEIN2; AHMED EL SAYED ABD ALLAH EL TAWEEL3 | ||||
| 1Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, MISR University for Science and Technology, 6th October City, Giza | ||||
| 2Department of Internal Medicine, MISR University for Science and Technology, 6th October City, Giza | ||||
| 3Department of Clinical Pathology , College of Medicine, MISR University for Science and Technology, 6th October City, Giza | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study assessed the clinical response to COVID-19 in patients with positive gastrointestinal parasitic infection. A total number of 100 patients were screened for COVID-19 infection with a nasopharyngeal swab and real-time polymerase chain reaction in the time period from August 2020 till August 2021. Patient's clinical status was classified according to WHO criteria as asymptomatic, mild/moderate, severe and critical. Fresh stool sample specimens were obtained from all patients included in the study for parasites and ova detection. For all cases clinical and laboratory data such as age, gender, results of stool analysis and clinical condition were collected, tabulated and statistically analyzed in corporation with clinical pathology, internal medicine and parasitology departments at Misr University for Science and Technology. This study was conducted on 100 COVID-19 patients whose stool specimens were examined for parasitic infections. The age of the studied patients ranged from 30 to 80 years with 51.21±31.68. They were 44 females and 56 males. The severity of clinical condition among COVID-19 patients was significantly different with the different parasitic infection (P value <0.0001). The 72.2% of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients had positive parasitic infection in their stools, but only 35.5% and 6.1% of the patients suffered from mild and severe clinical conditions respectively, had positive stool results for parasitic infection. The severity of clinical condition among COVID-19 patients didn’t significantly different between the protozoa, helminthic or mixed parasitic species | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID; 19; Parasitic infection; Severity of clinical condition | ||||
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