ABSTRACT
The present study was carried out on 400 Egyptian women ranging in age from 15 to 49 years. Full history, complete clinical, parasitological and hematological examination was done; also, rectal biopsy and indirect detection of schistosomiasis in urine by using Schisto-Fast kit was done. The results showed that the prevalence rate of parasitic infection was 15.2%, 8.2% of them were mixed infected cases. The most frequent parasite was S. mansoni. The highest prevalence rate of infection was 68.4% among the reproductive age group of 15-20 years. The prevalence of anemia was 76.7% in the infected group versus 69.7% in the noninfected one. The highest prevalence of anemia was in the age group of 20-35 years; also, 76.8% of the infected group had microcytic anemia, which is the commonest type in all anemic cases [57.4%]. Schistosomiasis was found to be the most important cause of anemia