Prevalence of intestinal parasitic diseases in school children of rural areas of district Lower Dir, Pakistan

Abstract

Present study was conducted among school children to recognize the prevalence of IPIs in rural communities of district Dir Lower, Pakistan. A sum of 324 samples of stool were collected (210 boys and 114 girls). Used direct smear method and formol ether sedimentation concentration technique for processing the samples. The result shows that 82% (n=266) were found infected comprised 64.8% male and 35.1% females. Children of the age group 10 to 12 years were found extremely infected 94.2% while 4-6 year age group were having minimum ratio of infection 72%. Current study shows mono parasitism in 50.6% of the students while 22.2% were infected with 2 species and 7.40% were infected with three species of parasites. Seven species of intestinal parasites were reported include Ascaris lumbricoid in male (n=122) 58.0% and in female (n=65) 57.0% followed by Hook worm (n=88) 41.9% and (n=44) 38.5%; Tania saginata (n=44) 20.9% and (n=24) 21.0%; Entrobius vermicularis (n=32) 15.2% and (n=16) 14.0%; Trichuris trichura (n=25) 11.9% and (n=22) 19.2%; Hymenolepis nana (n=24) 11.4% and (n=18) 15.7% and Entameoba histolytica (n=16) 7.61% and (n=14) 12.2% in male and females respectively. The study indicates that most occurring intestinal parasite in the current study were Ascaris lumbricoides 58.0% (n=122) followed by hookworms 41.9% (n=88). Male students were more infected than females in the present study.

New record of parasitic infection among school children of Lower Dir Pakistan

“…Various studies have been published on intestinal parasites infecting different sectors of human population in the region as Khan et al ( , 2012Khan et al ( , 2014Khan et al ( , 2016Khan et al ( , 2017aKhan et al ( , b, 2018aKhan et al ( , b, 2019a, Arshad et al (2019), Khan and Khan (2015), Noor un Nisa et al ( 2011), Khan et al (2020), Iqbal et al (2021), Khan et al (2022a), Khan et al (2022b), Khan et al (2022c), Ulhaq et al (2022) and Rahman et al (2022).…”

Prevalence of intestinal nematodes infection in school children of urban areas of district Lower Dir, Pakistan

“…This nematode infection is nearly comparable with 20% in Azad Jammu and Kasmir (Khan et al, 2018b), 7.58% in Islamabad, 6.70%in district Swat (Noor-un-Nisa et al, 2011.91% in district Swat, Lower and Upper Dir (Khan et al, 2019a), 6.45% in district Swat (Khan et al, 2017b) and 5.99% in district Swat (Khan et al, 2017c). The infection rate was high then other studies, 3.64% in Swat (Noor-un-Nisa et al, 2011), 3.64% in district Swat (Khan and Khan, 2015), 2.90% in Swat (Khan et al, 2018b), 3.96% (Khan et al, 2018a), 1.08% in district Swat (Khan et al, 2019b), 0.85% in Peshawar (Ilyas et al, 2018);m0.4% in Karachi (Arshad et al, 2019); 33.4% was found in school children of Lower district Lower Dir, Pakistan (Khan et al, 2022) and 41.9% of prevalence was noted by Ulhaq et al (2022). The infection rate was low 41.7% study conducted in Punjab (Dar et al, 2013).…”

“…In recent past decade various studies have been published on intestinal parasites infecting different sectors of human population in the region as Khan et al (2011Khan et al ( , 2012Khan et al ( , 2014Khan et al ( , 2016Khan et al ( , 2017cKhan et al ( ,b, 2018aKhan et al ( , b, 2019a, Arshad et al (2019), Khan and Khan (2015), Noor un Nisa et al (2011), Khan et al (2020Khan et al ( , 2021aKhan et al ( ,b, 2022, Iqbal et al (2021), Rahman et al (2022), Ulhaq et al (2022).…”