1. The comparison between male and female of infection Cryptosporidium in Baghdad.
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WHAEEB, SAFA T., ALSADOON, ZEID, ALTAEE, MUTHANNA NAEEMAH KARAM, ALSHAKIR, BRAA A., SALIH, HASANAIN SAHIB, LATTEF, FAISAL ALI, and KADHIM, RAFAL SALAM
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CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS ,OLDER patients ,MALES ,CRYPTOSPORIDIUM - Abstract
The present study aimed to explore the Cryptosporidium in 90 patients (human stool) selected from a private laboratory in Baghdad/Iraq during the period of study in (2019), by using the modified acidfast Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stain to identify the oocyst of parasite in all samples, evaluate the prevalence of the parasite between males and females and for evaluate the relationship of the parasite and age of patients in this study. This study showed that the total number of infected patients is 40 from 90 taken samples. The result of this study showed no significant differences (p<0.01) appeared between the males and females of the study, the number of infected patients is (17 females out of 40 and 23 males out of 50). And there were significant differences (p<0.01) between the younger ages that was more affected than the older patients (33.33% and 6.66%) Respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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