A study of Amoebiasis among children in Thi-Qar Province/Iraq
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determine the prevalence of the Amoebic dysentery among children under the The present study aims to
age of five years in Thi-Qar province during the period from October 2022 to August 2023 and to study the effects of some factors such as sex, age, location, source of drinking water and others on the
prevalence of the disease. Study was carried out at the Bint Al-Huda Educational Hospital for Women
and Children and Mohammed al-Musawi Hospital in Thi-Qar Province, 697 samples of feces were collected from children with diarrhea and examined by direct microscopic examination. The results
showed that 100 out of 697 and %14.34 % of children were infected with Entamoeba spp. No significant
differences (p>0.05) were recorded in prevalence of Entamoeba spp. according to sex and the infected
males %7.46% more than infected females 6.88%. A significant differences (p≤0.05) were observed in the prevalence of Entamoeba spp. according to age groups, the highest infection percent on the age group (48-60 months) 5% and the lowest infection percent on the age group (<12 months) 1.43 %. No
significant differences (p>0.05) were recorded in prevalence of Entamoeba spp. according to months of
the year, the high percent 23.33% in June and the lowest percent 10.67% in November. The study recorded significant differences (p≤0.05) in infection percent according to the location, the percent of infected children living in rural 9.75% more than infected children living in the urban 4.59%. The study
recorded significant differences in prevalence of Entamoeba spp. according parent educational level. The
high percent of infection was recorded in children belonging to parents without educational attainment 6.89%. The results showed that there were no differences (p>0.05) in prevalence of Entamoeba spp. according to source of drinking water.
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