ROTAVIRAL AND PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS AMONG MALIGNANT CHILDREN IN BASRAH | ||
| Thi-Qar Medical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2012, Pages 173-180 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maysloon A . Al-Sadoon | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Over five months period , the incidence of rotaviral and protozoal infections in patients receiving treatment for malignancy was investigated in the present study. A total of 58 patients [38 males and 20 females] were involved in this study. Formalin – ether concentration method And direct smear method were used for diagnosis of stool samples. Higher rates of infection were Found among those<2 years old ,and also among males than Females . In this study higher rate of infection in rural than in urban area was found and majority of them with mixed parasitic infections . All them with symptomatic and most patient which positive for Rotavirus with chronic diarrhea (66.7 % ) higher than discontinuous diarrhea (33.3 % ). | ||
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