Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways characterized by airway hyper responsiveness and reversible airflow obstruction that fluctuates over time. Parasitic infection is one of the environmental factors associated with a small increase in bronchial asthmatic risk. In the present study, 200 stool samples were collected from patients suffering from bronchial asthma and 200 stool samples from non-asthmatic healthy volunteers as control group. The samples were preserved in 10% formalin and examined macroscopically, microscopically by direct smear & formol ether sedimentation techniques. It was found that 12/200 cases (6%) were infected with Ascaris lumbricoides in asthmatic group and 2/200 cases (1%) in control (P = 0.007) illustrating significant difference between cases and control group indicating a role of Ascaris lumbricoides as a risk factor for bronchial asthma.
AHMED, A., & ALI, N. E. D. (2019). RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES INFECTION AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN JUHAYNA CITY, SOHAG, UPPER EGYPT. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 49(2), 405-408. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2019.68163
MLA
AMAL M. AHMED; NASR EL DEEN M. M. ALI. "RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES INFECTION AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN JUHAYNA CITY, SOHAG, UPPER EGYPT". Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 49, 2, 2019, 405-408. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2019.68163
HARVARD
AHMED, A., ALI, N. E. D. (2019). 'RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES INFECTION AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN JUHAYNA CITY, SOHAG, UPPER EGYPT', Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 49(2), pp. 405-408. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2019.68163
VANCOUVER
AHMED, A., ALI, N. E. D. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES INFECTION AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN JUHAYNA CITY, SOHAG, UPPER EGYPT. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2019; 49(2): 405-408. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2019.68163
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