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Volume Volume 24(9): 548-553, 2020.
Seasonal
changes in hospital drainage water quality, contaminants and parasitosis in patients and staff.
Teba Noori Mohammed Al- Jibouri, Thaer Abdulqader
Salih, Kamal Barazan Nada.
ABSTRACT
Mohammed Al-Jibouri TN, Salhi
TA, Nada
KB., Seasonal changes in hospital drainage water quality, contaminants and parasitosis in patients and staff, Onl
J Vet Res., Volume
24(9): 548-553, 2020.. We report seasonal changes
in Yarmouk Educational Hospital, Iraq, drainage water quality, contaminants and
effects on hematology and parasitosis
in 50 hospitalized patients and 50 healthy staff from February (Winter) to July (Summer). Water drainage temperature
increased 13C in winter to 37C in summer with increases (P < 0.05) in iron
81%, copper 76% and zinc ~90% content. Entamoeba, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Balantidium, Trichomonas and Ascaris spp prevailed
in drainage, and numbers correlated with iron, zinc and copper levels. We found
Giardia lamblia in ~20% patient
feces. We compared hematology and blood lipids in hospitalized patients with
normal healthy staff and found increased (P < 0.05) white cells (~44%)
mostly consisting of neutrophils (~63%), monocytes (~40%) and basophils (~27%)
in patients Platelets in patients were
~21% higher but other hematological values were not significantly different.
Our results suggest that blood cholesterol blood levels were ~11%, triglicerides 23% and high density lipoproteins ~23% higher
in patients. Results suggest that Giardia
possibly from contaminated water may affect blood values in hospitalized
patients.
Key words: Hospital, drainage, parasites, hematology, patients, healthy staff. Raw
data provided.
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