Gastritis; helicobacter pylori or giardia lamblia infection or both?

ABSTRACT

Introduction: infection with Helicobacter pylori is accepted as a main cause of gastritis and gastritis associated diseases. Giardia lamblia parasite is considered the most common protozoal infection in human. Concomitant H. pylori and Giardia infection is common for their similar mode of transmission and strong correlation to socioeconomic levels, but only few reports had described gastric giardiasis. In this work, H. pylori and Giardia lamblia were detected by PCR in gastric antral mucosal biopsies from a random sample of patients complaining from dyspepsia, in Sohag University Hospital, Egypt. Results were compared with a control group of patients undergoing EGD for other reasons rather than dyspepsia. The impact of H. pylori and Giardia lamblia infection whether singularly or concert, on clinical, endoscopic or histopathogical changes was studied