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العنوان
Assessment of parasitic infestation and it’s effect on school performance in (El-Bagour Center) Menoufiya Governorate \
المؤلف
Abdel-Rahman, Tamer Abdel Ghany Mahrous.
الموضوع
Parasitic diseases.
تاريخ النشر
2009.
عدد الصفحات
162 p. :
الفهرس
يوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام

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المستخلص

Nutrition and school performance is one of the most important measures of health and development.
Interaction of infection and school performance is well documented. By many studies Better nutrition means stronger immune system, less illness and better health and good school performance.
Worm infestation is a major problem in children of developing countries due to bad hygiene, it produce nutritional deficiency and anemia in children, which affect children growth and cognitive function A parasite can invade our body and interfere with the normal physiologic process. Many infections cause nutrient deficiencies due to poor digestion and malabsorption ; as well as diarrhea caused by parasites which constitutes the single greatest world wide cause of illness and death. Diseases caused by parasites are fairly common in children who play in dirt where worms and other parasites live Parasites of medical importance are divided into three categories I-Helminthes includes: Phylum Platyhelminthes, Flat worms: this phylum contains 2 classes: classTrematoda includes (Fasciola Heterophyes and Schistosoma), Class Cestoda includes (Taenia E.granulosus, Dipylidium caninum, Diphylobothrium latum Hymenplepis diminuta and Hymenolepis nana) Phylum NematheIminthes: Round worms contain Class Nematoda (Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis, Trichinella spiralis, Trichuris trichiura, Hook worms, Wucheraria bancrofti, Loa loa, Dracunculus medinensis and Entrobius vermicularis ) II- Arthropod includes (Insecta Arachinida, Crustacea),III-Protozoa includes (Phizopoda, Cliata Mastigophora, Sporoza).Parasitic protozoa of man fall into 2 groups intestinal protozoa: including Amoebae, Balantidium coli, Giardia and