Ismail M. T; Al- Kafri A; Mudawar Kh. and Hasaba A.

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Journal of Laboratory Diagnosis, Volume 6, Issue 9, Jumādá al-ūlá 1434 - April 2013, Pages: 49-58

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The aim of this study is to find out the prevalence of intestinal pathogenic and nonpathogenic parasites spread in children in elementary educational level in rural of Alraka city, in a research plan which was done to draw a new geographic distribution map for intestinal parasites in Syria.
976 stool samples, were collected from children in 22 Schools in rural of Alraka, were examined. That was done between September -October of 2010 and April of 2011.
We found that 499 samples contain parasite) with percentage 51.60%). And 201 samples contain human pathogenic parasite (40.28%). The pathogenic parasites according to their prevalence were:
Protozoa: Giardia lamblia 12.92%, Chilomastix mesnili 1.65%, and Entamoeba histolytica 0.10%. Helminths: Hymenolepis nana 2.89%, Enterobius vermicularis 0.41%, Trichuris trichuria 0.10%. Fungi: Candida SP 2.68%. While the nonpathogenic parasite prevalence was as the following: Blastocystis hominis 20.99%, Entamoeba coli 10.74% and Iodamoeba butschilii 2.06%.
Giardia lamblia and Hymenolepis nana are the pathogenic parasites, which are mostly found in rural of Alraka city, and it is worthy to mention that no case of Ascaris lumbricoides has been diagnosed in our study, which was seen in a large numbers in previous years.

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