Diagnosis of The Soil-Transmitted Parasites in Wasit Province-Iraq

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Such places of leisure as the dirt found in parks and public places can be infected with the stray animals in these gardens, which can lead to contagious stages of parasites. A great number of individuals sleep in them and could be exposed to infection by the parasites since the parasites’ infectious phases are able to endure years or even months. regardless of the weather. This is the reason why the study was carried out in various distinct locations of Wasit Governorate . Simple random selection was used to collect soil samples which were used to collect a total of 35 soil samples at different locations in Wasit and the modified flotation technique was used to process them. The overall parasite contamination percentage of all the studied soil samples was 86 ( 30 / 35). Eight different forms of helminthes were identified from all of the soil samples that were examined. (35 ) Toxocara and Ascaris ova had the highest frequently occurring helminthes in 28% (20 ) of the samples followed by of Ancylostoma in 14 percent (10 ), Trichuris in 3 percent ( 2 ),Enterobius in 6 percent (4 ), Fasciola metacercariae in 3 percent (2 ),Diphyllobotherium in 6 percent ( 4( .The results indicate that the communities that are at risk of zoonotic transmission are those that are at parks and other places of community. Download Full Text