Article InfoThis research was conducted to study the spread of an important unicellular protozoan Trichomonas gallinae isolated from the mouth and esophagus of three groups of domestic pigeon Colomba livia domestica by wet mount preparation. A total of 609 domestic pigeons were tested in Kirkuk city, Iraq from August 2015 to April 2016, the total infectious rate of the prevalence were 49.26%, distributed to 64.92%, 50.98% and 30.41% in Alzajel, pakistani and zubaeri pigeon respectively. The present study compared three different stains to characterize the shape of T. gallinae namely Giemz, Gram and for first time Field's stain, the Giemza stain showed efficient to stain T. gallinae more than other two stains, although Field's stain requires less time for staining compared to Giemza and Gram's stain. The parasites are cultivated in three prepared culture media (In-tube culture system), which are modified Diamond media (TYM), Cysteine Peptone Maltose media (CPLM) and Trichomonas CM0161 media (CM 161) with the initial inoculation of 2X105 cell/ml, the fourth media was In-pouch culture system that is commercially available with the initial inoculation of 105 cell/ml. In-pouch TV culture media is used for the first time to diagnose and to grow T. gallinae which is a special media for diagnosis of the vaginal trichomoniasis caused by Trichomonas vaginalis. The result showed the best growth of T. gallinae in In-pouch media compared with In-tube culture system, modified diamond media and CM 161 gave the high growth to 48 hours while CPLM gave the high growth from 24 hours, the CM 161 media showed acute decrease in the number of T. gallinae after 48 hour.
310 serum samples collected for women audits to Kirkuk General Hospital in Kirkuk city suspected of toxoplasmosis(TOXO), Cytomegalovirus(CMV), Rubella virus(RV) and Herpes virus II (HSV). It has been in the current study using Elisa test 50 samples to diagnose women with toxoplasmosis and a rate of 16.13% and 3 sample of women with Rubella virus at a rate of 0.97%, while the herpes simplex virus, including one sample at a rate of 0.32% , while the number of Cytomegalovirus samples was one at the rate of 5.48% and for the common infection was the number of the common virus samples (Rubella and Cytomegalovirus) 153 sample and a rate of 49.35% and (parasite Toxoplasma gondii and Rubella virus and Cytomegalovirus) was 10 sample at a rate 3.23%. The highest percentage of infection toxoplasmosis and Cytomegalovirus virus in 66-52y. the age group at a rate 48.57% and 22.8%, respectively. While the highest percentage of infection rubella virus in 96-62 y. of age group at a rate 1.55% and in herpes simplex virus ratio was 0.68% in the age group 15-25y. while the shared infection for (Toxo, RV, CMV) and (RV, CMV) recorded in the age group 66-52y and infection by 8.57% and 65.71%, respectively.
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