Eosinophilia as a diagnostic value in patients suffering from schistosomiasis haematobium comparing to eosinophiluria and egg count in the urine

ABSTRACT

Fifty-out of sixty cases [ranging in age between 18-30 years old] suffering from Schistosomiasis hematobium were selected from Inpatient and Outpatient Clinic of Theodore Bilharz Research Institute. Patients were divided into three groups 20 infected and non treated, 20 infected and treated, then exposed again to infection and ten were completely treated. Also, a fourth group to serve as healthy control was included. Blood samples were collected to count eosinophil percentage and absolute eosinophil count. Urine samples were collected to study eosinophiluria by slide film staining with Leishman's stain and to count number of ova excreted in 10 ml urine by urine filtration technique. Eosinophilia and eosinophiluria >5% had diagnostic value for Schistosomiasis hematobium as well as the correlation between them and intensity of infection by number of ova in urine