Zainab A Makawi

University of Baghdad · Vertebrate department /research center and natural history museum

The current study was conducted on goats in various parts of Wasit Province, Iraq, from November 2021 to April 2022. The study aims to find and identify intestinal parasites (IPs) in goats in Wasit province. The goat's fresh fecal specimens (n=180) include cysts, eggs, oocysts, trophozoites and larval stages. One hundred eighty sheep feces samples...

A total of 50 fecal samples were collected from ostrich and examined using direct smears to investigate with and without centrifugation. The current study revealed to 11 genus of intestinal parasite (trophozoites, oocyst and cysts), as follow: Cryptospordium sp. (20%), Eimeria sp. (8%), Entamoeba sp. (4%), Buxtonella sp (4%), Ascaridia egg (10%), H...

Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774), a freshwater snail native to eastern Mediterranean, eastern Africa, southeast Asia, southern Asia, India, and Malaysia, it is an effective invader and is now nearly globally distributed. This snail has been studied with interest because of its rapidly distributed, and because of being can serve as compat...

Amebiasis, related to the pathogenic parasite Entamoeba histolytica, is a prominent cause of diarrhea globally. Amebiasis is primarily a disease of impoverished communities in developing nations, although it has recently arisen as a significant infection among returning tourists and immigrants. Severe cases are linked to a high case fatality rate....

Intestinal parasites present in freshwater from the Al- Fallujah, Al- Habbaniyah and Al-Alwarar, of the Euphrates river in Iraq are Cryptosporidium spp (25.3%), Giardia sp (3.3%), Eimeria sp (3.3%), Pinworm eggs (3.3%), Naegleria sp (15.3%), Lecane niwati (1.3%), Trichomonas hominis (19.3%), Acanthamoeba spp (24.6%), Entamoeba coli (20.6%), Balanti...

The present study attempts to identify the relationship between some phenotypic measurements of the two species , Common carp Cyprinus carpio and Coptodon zillii, and the feeding habits of these two different species in terms of mouth shape, mouth depth and some of the vital characteristics of these two species related to the way they feed, especia...

The research was performed in order to investigate the prevalence of Eimeria spp in buffalo. Coccidiosis, is a common livestock disease include water buffaloes and nothing is known about the most pathogenic species of Eimeria. Since the highest prevalence of oocyst shedding and incidence of disease occurs in buffalo calves less than one year of age...

The adult worms of the Microphallidae family are mainly found as intestinal parasites of birds and mammals, while metacercariae is most commonly found in decapodal crustaceans. The Microphallidaeare family is spread throughout the world. It includes approximately 47 genera. Mature worms usually enter the digestive system of vertebrates, especially...

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite of medical and veterinary significance that causes gastroenteritis in a number of vertebrate hosts. Several studies have recorded different degrees of pathogenicity and virulence among Cryptosporidium species and isolates of the same species as well as evidence of variation in host susceptibility to infection...

Rabbits are animals affected by many different species of parasites, infection Lead to lower body weight gain compared with non-infected rabbits , while sever infection Lead to death , although rabbits are less likely to develop epidemic diseases, but they are exposed to diseases of care and malnutrition, as well as parasitic diseases .Turning to p...

To study the prevalence of intestinal protozoa of deer, 50 fecal samples were collected from Baghdad and was it district, forty samples were found to be infected with intestinal protozoa and overall prevalence infection rate was 50% of Cryptospordium sp., (30%) Eimeria sp. and (30%) Entamoeba sp. cumulatively, a total of 23 combinations of coinfect...

The current study was aimed to determine the infection rate with intestinal protozoa in cattle at Wasit province, during period from the beginning of December 2018 to the end of August 2019. Two hundred and seventy fecal samples were collected from cattle and examined by traditional methods (direct moist smears, flotation with saturated NaCl soluti...

Samples were collected from the feces of 50 ostriches, which were examined by direct smears. With and without centrifugation; cysts and oocysts of protozoa and nematode eggs were examined in fecal sample. The results of this work were as follows: Trophozoites and cysts of Entamoeba spp., cyst of Giardia spp., oocyst of Cryptosporidium spp., oocyst...

The present study aimed to investigated Giardia duodenalis in cattle in some different areas of Wasit province by using molecular study and verification of the genotype of Giardia duodenalis. Collected one hundred fecal samples from cattle, the result showed that the rate of infection was 83% (100). DNA was extracted from the 100 positive samples f...

This study focused on many kinds of ticks distributed in Iraq and on various kinds of domestic and wild animals, and the distributed of ticks affected by the environment such as temperature and humidity, and to identify the diseases caused by ticks where the vertebrates are exposed to many diseases and inflammatory and allergic reactions as a resul...

Buxtonella sulcata multiplication in lumen of the intestinal tract lead to Diarrhea. A total of 120 sheep faecal samples were collected (23 males and 97 females) with ages ranged from less than 1 year to 3 years. Also, 11 sheep drinking (river) water from Al-Suwaira city, Wasit governorate, for the period extended from September 2015 to the end Feb...

Zoonotic Intestinal protozoa found in sheep and handlers typically cause diarrhoea, once there are appropriate conditions within the enteric lumen that promote the parasite multiplication. This study aimed to investigate the cyst and trophozoites infection in sheep and handlers. One-hundred and eighty faecal samples from sheep and 50 stool sample f...

The current study was designed to determine the incidence of pathogenic parasites found in the river water in Diyala province. The study was extended from June to September 2017. All samples were subjected to microscopic examination using traditional examination. The results of the present study showed water contamination of the Tigris River in Diy...

A total of twelve fish specimens of the Asian catfish Silurus triostegus ( Heckel, 1843) were purchased from fishermen in the local market of Bab al-Mu'adham in Baghdad province and examined for ndoparasites .The present study revealed the existence of two species of digenetic trematodes, Megamonostomella rashediansis Rahemo and Al-Naemi, 1998 and...

The current study revealed to contamination of fresh water with twelve genus and species of parasites and protozoa: Ascaris lumbricoides (28%), Toxocara canis (7.5%), Strongyloides sp. (9.3%), Rhabditae larvae (8%), Hymenolepis nana (18.6%), Cryptosporidium sp. (33.3%), Giardia lamblia (22.6%), Entamoeba histolytica (12%) , Entamoeba coli (20.6%),...

The current study was designed to determine the infection rate of intestinal protozoa in sheep and their handlers also in drinking water of them, in Wasit province, and study the relationship between contamination of drinking water with protozoal pathogen and infection in sheep and handlers in the period from the beginning of September 2015 to the...

The current study was designed to determine the infection rate of intestinal protozoa in sheep and their handlers also in drinking water of them, in Wasit province, and study the relationship between contamination of drinking water with protozoal pathogen and infection in sheep and handlers in the period from the beginning of September 2015 to the...

Intestinal protozoa in sheep and human usually incriminated in diarrhea, when there are suitable conditions in the intestinal lumen that promote the parasite multiplication. This study aimed to investigate the cyst and trophozoites infection in sheep and handlers. One-hundred eighty fecal samples from sheep and 50 from handlers, were collected from...

Pathogenic intestinal parasites present in fresh water from the Al- Gherai´at and Al-Kadhimiya banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq are reported. Schistosoma haematobium, Polymorphus sp., Taenia sp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris sp., Strongyloides stericorailis, Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia sp., Trichomonus vaginalis, Chilomastix sp., Io...