Background: Parasitic diseases continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality. More than
three billion people are infected worldwide, mainly in the developing countries. Children are easy prey
to parasites. Poverty, illiteracy, poor hygiene, lack of access to potable water, poor public health
infrastructure, hot and humid tropical climate are the usual factors associated with intestinal parasitic
infections. Parasitic infections, particularly intestinal helminthes, cause hundreds of thousands of
avoidable deaths each year
Objective: To Assessment of the prevalence of parasitic helminthes infection among Qena governorate
residents.
Patients and method(s): Across sectional study was carried out on 316 patients, 5-50 years attended
the outpatient clinics of Qena Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, between August 2017 and
August 2018. Stool samples were collected and examined by Direct wet mount and Concentration
techniques including sedimentation using saline and formol ethyl acetate.
Result(s):In the studied cases, intestinal helminthic parasitic infections were found in 40 (12.5%) cases
out of 316 patients. Positive cases were 30 male patients (75%), while 10 female patients (25%), 27
(67.5%) patient out of 197 aged from 5-19 years, 0 (0%) patients out of 70 from 20-34 years and 13
(32.5%) out of 49patientfrom 35-50 years, 10 of patients from urban houses (25%) and 30 of patients
from rural houses (75 %),19 (47.5%) were present with abdominal pain , 9 (22.5%) with diarrhea and
12 (30%) with perianal itching
Conclusion: Qena governorate suffer from intestinal helminthic parasitic infection mainly in rural
areas in children and young adults from 5-19 years old.