Vaccines R&D & Vaccination

Ayoub A Bazzaz has completed his PhD from Nottingham University, UK and continued Postdoctoral research works for over 10 years at Leeds, Liverpool and Cardiff Universities in UK. He is one of the Founder of Faculty of Medicine of Tikrit University, Iraq and first head of Anatomy Department 1988-1991. He has supervised and refereed many PhD and MSc students in Iraq, KSA, Libya and UK and has over 60 published scientific papers in reputed International journals.

The study involved a general survey of six diagnosed common parasitic infectious disease, amoebiasis, beaver fever (giardiasis), oriental spot (leishmaniasis), black fever (Kala azar), hydated disease (cystosis) and toxoplasmosis, for outpatients attended a few different state hospitals, Al-Jumhuri, Azadi and Children hospitals for the years 2009-2017. The amoebiasis involved infection with Entamoeba histolytica had the highest records (80%) amongst other five parasites in year 2011, followed by giardiasis (18%) in 2012, respectively. The annual peak of total infection for all these six parasites was in year 2011 followed by years, 2013, respectively. The highest monthly records of general infection were in June followed by July and October, respectively. The present work provides a national survey of general parasitic infection prevalence in a few Iraqi cities. Similar surveys to cover other cities would complimentary be beneficial to promote to an official level which imply a wider idea of the prevalence of these parasites in the country. Future works should involve medical treatments, i.e. vaccination to siege the prevalence of these intestinal and coetaneous diseases.