EVALUATION OF ROTA VIRUS AND INTESTINAL PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN IN BABYLON PROVINCE
Journal Title: World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
During a period extending from November 2016 to April 2017, a total of (120) samples were collected of diarrheal infected children in the Babylon Teaching Hospital for gynecology and children, Al-Noor Pediatrics Hospital and many Primary health care centers, stool and blood samples were collected, a combined with information about each case include age, sex, duration of disease, and being hospitalized or not. Sixty of healthy infants and children of the same age group were also included as a control group. Primarily, Rota virus was detected in 24 (20%) of the total cases. diarrheic patients were investigated by apid chromatography test for rotavirus, 24 samples (20%) showed positive results to rotavirus, among them 15 (12.5%) Male while 9 (7.5%) Females, with significant differences in rates of infection according to gender, from (120) stool samples we found that (18) 15% were positive to intestinal protozoa in which (10) 8.3% show Entamoeba histolytica and (8) 6.6% show Giardia lamblia.
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Raeid Subhi Flaih
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