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

Abstract

Intestinal parasitism is the main cause of disease all over the world and described as a significant community health problem. The current study intended to find out the occurrence and identification of hazard factors linked with IPIs among 4-12 years aged shool-age children residing in Lower Dir district, Pakistan during 2019 - 2020. A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted using a pre-arranged pre-tested survey. Anthropometric data and stool collection were done to obtain the findings. The direct wet mount preparation in saline/iodine/methods was used for stool examination. Data were investigated using the GraphPad Prism 5. A total of 400 children studied (mean age of 8.6±3.6 years) the total incidence rate for the intestinal parasitic disease was established to be 71.75%. Of the 400 children studied, the overall prevalence rate for intestinal parasitic infections was found to 71.75% Ascaris lumbricoides (33.1%), Trichuris trichiura (1.04%), E. vermicularis (1.39%), Hookworm (19.86%) were identified in children living in the study area. We concluded that there is a mass scale campaigns were required to generate alertness about health and sanitation in children and the need for the development of effective poverty control programs because deworming (killing of worm with drugs) alone is not adequate to control parasitic infections.

Prevalence of Nematode Infection Among School Children of District Malakand, Pakistan

“…Present study was aimed to assess the prevalence of geo-helminths infection among school children of district Malakand, Pakistan. Studies on intestinal parasites were carried out in Malakand region such as (Khan et al, , 2014(Khan et al, , 2015(Khan et al, , 2016(Khan et al, , 2017a(Khan et al, , b, 2018a(Khan et al, , b, c, d, 2019a(Khan et al, , b, 2020(Khan et al, , 2021a(Khan et al, , b, 2022(Khan et al, , 2023Noor-un-Nisa et al, 2012;Arshad et al, 2019;Rahman et al, 2021;Ulhaq et al, 2021;Iqbal et al, 2021;Garedaghi et al, 2021;Rahman et al, 2022;Subhan et al, 2023). Current study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of nematode parasitic infection in school children of district Malakand, Pakistan.…”