TY - JOUR AU - Hussein, Jehan N. AU - Meerkhan, Azad A. PY - 2019/03/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Incidence Of Intestinal Parasites Among Children In Hivi Pediatric Hospital, Duhok, Iraq JF - Science Journal of University of Zakho JA - SJUOZ VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.25271/sjuoz.2019.7.1.571 UR - https://sjuoz.uoz.edu.krd/index.php/sjuoz/article/view/571 SP - 1-4 AB - <p class="Abstract"><span lang="EN-US">This study has conducted in Hivi Pediatric Hospital, Duhok Province, Iraq, to estimate the gastrointestinal parasites infection among patients contacted this hospital. Overall patients, 22.27% (261/1,172) were diagnosed as infected by parasites; more of them were from summer season with the infection rate of 24.83% (216/870) versus 14.90% (45/302) in autumn, rural residence had a greater rate of infection 65.90% (172/261) as compared with urban residence 34.09 (89/261), males were more infected than females (63.98% versus 36.02% respectively), the age group of three years and less had the highest rate of infection, while the age group of more than 9 years had the lowest rate (</span><span lang="EN-US">57.85%, 4.98% respectively). Concerning the children feeding way, the artificially feeding had the highest rate then mixed feeding and Breastfeeding (58.16%, 25.53% and 16.31% respectively). </span><span lang="EN-US">As general, the infection with protozoa (84.67) was higher than helminthes (18.01%) with some cases of infection by both of protozoa and helminthes (4.98). Regarding each parasite separately, <em>Entamoeba histolytica </em>had the highest infection rate then <em>Giardia lamblia., Enterobius vermicularis, Cryptosporidium Spp., Entamoeba coli</em>and<em>Blastocystis hominis </em>(</span><span lang="EN-US">38.70%, 25.67%, 18.01, 9.20%, 6.51 and 4.60 respectively).</span></p> ER -