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18(11): 895-899, 2014. Redacted 2018.
Hospital survey:
Prevalence of Giardia lamblia in
children
Hamid
Sharifi1.2, Nasrin Adib3*,
Hamid Reza Foroudi3, Ali Akbar rezaei3, Elham Foroudi4, Maryam Najafi5
1Food Hygiene and Public Health, 3Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Shahid Bahonar University
of Kerman, 2Research Center
for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman
University of Medical Science, .4Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Shiraz University, 5Laboratory science, Khane Zanyan, Fars, Iran.
ABSTRACT
Sharifi H, Adib N, Reza Foroudi
H, Akbar Rezaei A, Foroudi
E, Najafi M, Prevalence of Giardia lamblia in
children, Onl J Vet Res., 18(11): 895-899, 2014. We report prevalence of Giardia lamblia
in children of Khane
Zanyan in Fars, Iran. 2606 isolates collected for
various seasons over 2 years were used in the survey. Giardia cysts were
identified by direct light microscopy. In the survey, prevalence was associated
with year, gender, age and season. 1,463 boys and 1,143 girls with 1,253
aged 0 to 10 years and 1,353 older children were studied. Prevalence was 4.8%
with a confidence interval of 4.0 to 5.6.
The incidence was similar in male and females, but in children < 10 yr (7.0%) was higher than those >10 (2.7%) years old
(P<0.05). There were no significant differences between years of study,
seasons or gender. The findings suggested that younger children were more
susceptible to Giardia lambli.
Key words:
Intestinal parasite, Giardiasia lamblia, Prevalence,
Iran.
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