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Abstract
ptozoal infections continue to be a major health problem in ~ among children. Although mortality from such infections is s to malnourishment and impairment in physical and mental ld cause more morbidity and more economic and social :ill 1, I study was a surveillance for endemic intestinal protozoal g children of a TIlfal primary school done between Sept )02 to study the distribution and detenninants of endemic )Cl. Also, to ascertain the most common reported symptoms tions and to assess the nutritional status of primary school I1 iI relation to intestinal protozoal infections. Another aim was ’een direct and concentrated techniques for the recovery of I1 a from pooled formalin preserved faecal samples. ,I IS carried out on 264 children, aged 6 to 12 years old, l primary school. Three consecutive stool samples were ’11’ ch child every two months for one year. The three samples ~ pooled spedlnen waJ to be exmmned by direct smear II-ether concentration technique and modified Ziehel~. Also, an additional stool sample was obtained from any rom diarrhea inbetween and examined for intestinal I Ili I” HI 1,1 and height were detected for each child participating in the en of capillary blood was collected from fingertips. as detennined using cyanmethomoglobin method. ~ and red blood cells cOlmts were measured for each child. 11 11 e end of the study period, microscopic examinations revealed that f tile children had been infected with one or more of the pathogenic protozoa at least once and about 90 were infected with one or the non-pathogenic intestinal protozoa. 83.70/0 had been infected J/’ iardia lamblia and 44.3~1o with Clyptosporidium. Entamoeba ica/difJpar was detected in 29.5 of the children at least once.