EFFECT OF ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA ON HIPCIDIN AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS IN BLOOD.

This study was conducted in Samarra, city on patients with amoebic dysentery and diarrhea for the period (1/12/ 2017 – 30/8/2018). The study included the examination of (600) stool samples of patients with diarrhea who were coming to the general Samarra hospital and medical clinics and took 30 samples with amoebic dysentery and 30 samples with diarrhea and anather 30 healthy samples as control. The results showed that 205 of tested samples were infected with amoebic dysentery (34.16%). Also, we have been studying and examining some of biochemical parameters of blood in patients with amoebic dysentery and diarrhea and for control group, these parameters are percentage of Ferritin, Hepsidin and Iron in serum and total iron band capacity (TIBC) and the results showed significant decrease (P≤0.05) in percentage of Ferritin, Iron and TIBC in patients with amoebic dysentery in compared with control group, while itwas increased (P≤0.05) in Hepcidin percentage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]