Causative bacterial and parasitic agents of diarrheal diseases among internally home displaced persons in khartoum
Rashad S. Jaweesh
University of Medical Science and Technology, Sudan
: J Immunol Tech Infect Dis
Abstract
I nternally home displaced persons (IDPs) are the group of people who are forced to migrate from their origin residence due to war, dryness or other circumstances, this migration resulted in high rates of mortality and morbidity due to the low quality of life, this difficult situation raised diarrheal diseases to become a major health concern in Sudan where the IDPs are more than 3 millions. The study was conducted during the period of October 2011 to April 2012 in Jabal Awlia camp witch located in Khartoum boundaries. The objective of this Study was to determine the main causative parasitic and bacterial agents of diarrheal disease among those IDPs as well as to determine the antimicrobial sensitivity patterns against the isolated bacteria. A total of one hundred and fifty diarrheal specimens were collected from the camp residents and examined under microscope, then transported by a transport media for culture and identification using API20E and conventional biochemical tests. Macroscopic examination reveals 26 (17.5%) parasitic infected patients. Determined as 19 (13%) Guardia lambilia, 4(3%) Entamoeba histolytica, 1 (0.66%) Entamoeba coli and 2(1.3%) H. nana. While culture results showed that Escherichia coli represented 78%, Shigella sonnei 5% (all were sensitive to Tetracycline and Ciprofloxacin), Shigella dysentraie represented 3% (were sensitive to Tetracycline, Ciprofloxacin and Co-trimoxazole), moreover Salmonella typhi represented 2% (were sensitive to Chloramphenicol, Ciprofloxacin and Co-trimoxazole), finally Salmonella paratyphi C represented only 0.7% and showed sensitivity to Chloramphinicol and Ciprofloxacin. From our results we concluded that parasites and bacterial etiology are endemic.
Biography
Rashad S. Jaweesh is a Ph. D scholar Al-Gazera University and he has a master degree on medical microbiology from the University of Medical Science and Technology in addition to another master degree on immunology from Tropical Medicine Department at Sudan Academy of Science. He is the head of medical microbiology department at the Faculty of Basic Medical Science in Libyan International Medical University, an executive on the Sudan Union of Clinical Laboratory Scientists, in addition to be a member in the Sudan Society for Microbiology.
E mail: rashadjaweesh@gmail.com
