Prevalence of gastro intestinal parasite among primary school Sudanese children in Banat & Alhalanga villages in Kassala Sudan
International Journal of Development Research
Prevalence of gastro intestinal parasite among primary school Sudanese children in Banat & Alhalanga villages in Kassala Sudan
Received 08th September, 2017; Received in revised form 18th October, 2017; Accepted 16th November, 2017; Published online 30th December, 2017
Mohamed Hassan Ahmed et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background: In order to identify the prevalence rate of intestinal parasitic infections among primary school children, this cross sectional study conducted in Banat and Alhalanga areas in Kassala State. The study involved one hundred stool samples collected from children aged under 13 years. By using direct wet preparation, flotation technique and formal ether concentration technique to process the samples, the results showed that, 45 children about (45 %) were harboring different gastrointestinal parasites. the study revealed that protozoa was seen in 29 children about (64.4%), while helminthes and co infection of protozoa and helminthes were seen in 11 children about (24.5%) and 5 children about (11.1%) respectively. Out of 45 positive cases, single parasite infections were found among 35 children about (77.8 %), were as 10 children about (22.2 %) were found to be infected with multiple parasitic infections. The result also showed the highest prevalence rate of single parasite infection was G.lamblia 22 children about (48.9%) followed by H.nana 10 children about (22.2%), E.histolytica 2 children about (4.4%) and E.vermicularis 1 child about (2.2%) and the highest prevalence rate of multiple parasitic infection (co-infection) was G.lamblia + E.histolytica 5 children about (11.1%) followed by G.lamblia + H.nana 3 children about (6.7%), E.histolytica + H.nana 1 child about (2.2%) and G.lamblia + E.vermicularis 1 child about (2.2%). When using different techniques for all samples of study population, formal ether concentration technique proved to detect higher rates of different parasites encountered. The highest rate reported was for Girdia lamblia (22.0%), followed by Hymenolepis nana (10.0%), Entamoeba histolytica (2.0%) and Enterobius vermicularis (1.0%). The result also showed that using floatation technique could not recover a single case of Entamoeba histolytica. Although there is differences in detection of different parasites by different techniques unfortunately these differences in rates were found to be statistically in significant with (p. value= 0.848).
