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Hydatid cysts among human that caused by larval stage of the parasite Echinococcus granulosis , consider one of important risky parasitic and zoonotic disease. From many hundred of patients those attending hospitals to exclude the infection with hydatid cysts , 139 patient were found infected according to altrasonic rays technique. In concern to sex , males show high infection ( 90 , 64.8%) comparison to females (49 , 35.2%) . The relationship between infection and category, exhibited that category 40-51 years was the most infected with the disease (43 , 30.9%) , while no infection were found in the category less than 10 years . Also rate of infection show high significant difference (P < 0.01) between rural patient (100, 71.9%) an urban (39, 28.1%) . The result shoe that favorite site of infection with parasite were liver and lungs (27.3% , 25.1% respectively ) and only one patient show infection with hydatid cysts in the bone . All the collected cysts were examind to detect the viability, 74 cysts (53.2%) were fertile, 49 cysts (35.3%) sterile while the calcified and under developed cyst were 7.9% and 3.6% respectively. Keywords: epidemiology, cystic, echinococcosis, patients, Iraq

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Giardia duodenalis and Entamoeba histolytica are one of most important protozoan parasites causing diarrhea in Baghdad. This study done through three years (2013, 2014, 2015). Total of 7188 stool samples examined, 208 were infected with G. duodenalis (2.89%) and 1176 were infected with E. histolytica (16.36%) in patients attended Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) and Al-Imam Ali General Hospital (AAGH) in Al-Sidder city. These two-parasite found in all months, all ages and in both genders, but the prevalence of giardiasis was higher (P<0.05) in PHCC than AAGH (5.15% and 0.87%, respectively). Also, giardiasis was higher in PHCC than AAGH (5.15% and 0.87%, respectively) but without significant differences. According to the age, prevalence of Giardia was high (12.92%) among category 1-4 years in PHCC, while high prevalence of Giardia (1.75%) in AAGH was among category 15-44 years. In concern to amoebiasis infection, the prevalence of the parasite was high among category 15-44 years in both AAGH and PHCC (31.15% and 27.09%, respectively). Females shows high infection with giardiasis and amoebiasis than males in both PHCC and AAGH. According to seasons of year the infection with G. duodenalis increased in bothPHCC and AAGH in Autumn and winter but decreased in Summer. In other hand, the infection with E. histolytica increased in both PHCC andAAGH in summer and decreased in winter.

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The study performed on patients attending Al-Mahaweel Hospital. Out of 400 faecal samples examined, 6(1.5%) were infected with H. nana parasite high infection recorded in spring (2.8%) followed in autumn (2.1%), while no infection detected in summer. In concern to sex, out of 199 males examined, 4 males infected (2%), while only 2 females found infected out of 201 females examined (1%). Category ranged from one day to 5 years, show high infection (11.8%), the infection decrease in the category more than 15 years old (0.33%) clinical sign of H. nana among patients was studied.

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A total of three hundred and seventy four pregnant women attending hospitals in Babylon province were examined for detection of toxoplasmosis , during period from Nov2020 till June2021. Out of 374 examined , thirty-one found infected (8.29%) . Result exhibited no significant differences in rate of infection among months of the study . From 31 infected women , eleven were aborted fetus (35.5%) , during 2-7 months of pregnancy , Other twenty women were 11 (35.5%) born malformation infants and 9 (29%) born intact infants. According to ages , category 40-49years old , show high effect , since50% aborted fetus and 50% born defected infants . In concern to habitat , rural patients show slight increasing of infection (8.8%) than urban (8%) . The study ensure that cats were the main source of infection , since24 of infected women (77.4%) were direct or indirect contact with cats . Only 4 (36.3%) of eleven women with history of previous abortion , were aborted for the second time

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This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of Toxoplasmosis among pregnant women, in Baghdad province. A total of 56 sera samples from pregnant women, their age ranged between 20-39 years, were obtained and tested. The results exhibit high prevalence with Toxoplasma parasite among pregnant women that reach 75%(12\56) and also high rate of infection with increasing age, it was 64.3% in women ranged 20-26 years old, while it was raised to reach 87.5% in those ranged 33-39 years old. Among the environmental and individual factors that was studied, It was found that absence of educational level, exposure to cats and previous abortion have a great important in the increasing of infection among pregnant women, while there was no any important statistical relationship between rate of infection and any other environmental and individual factors which have been studied.

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Twenty-five sample pigeon faeces were examined to detect the prevalence of natural infection of coccidiosis among these birds. Out of 25 pigeons examined , 21 birds were found infected (84%) , 12 infected pigeons were males (85.7%) and 9 were female (81.8%). Flotation by zinc sulphate was the best method for diagnosis of the parasite oocystes in the faeces of the birds comparison to the direct examination, with significant differences was p > 0.05. The extract of ginger (Zingibar officinale) exhibited high efficiency in treatment of infected pigeons with coccidiosis, and the highest efficiency 91% was by using 10% of the extract, with significant differences on level p > 0.05 comparison to that of 5% which was 70%