Prevalence of intestinal pathogenic parasites among population in Al –dour district in salah aldain governorate.

Abstract

There had been servy for the intestinal parasite spread in the dour-district the six months during summer2007 ,included samples of stool for (631) person from the different ages and all of them from the patients attending to the healthy centers in the district ,and those samples were examined by using formalin- ether method ,which depended on concentrating the parasitic samples by using concentration. Entamoeba histolytica was the highest and Entamoeba coli has recorded (16.48%) and Giardia lamblia (11.88%)while Entrobius vermicularis has recorded (7.44%). Statistical analysis has been shown by using Chi squre X test and ANOVA test significant values between male(76.39%) and female(68.40 %) , and between age groups .