journal of kerbala university

The study includes the Cutanous Leishmania distribution and the other parasites types in some governorates in Iraq. Specimens were included cases of outpatients hospitals like: Al-Karamah, Al-Sadir Teaching Hospital in Baghdad , Al-Hilla Teaching Hospital , Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital, Ein Altamer General Hospitals in Karbala ,Al-Sadir Teaching Hospital in Al-Najaf, Al-Karamah and Al-Zahraa Teaching Hospitals in Wasit , Al-Diwanyia General Hospital . Al-Hussein General Hospital in Al-Nasiriya, Al-Smawa General Hospital, Al-Sadir Teaching Hospital and Al-Qurna General Hospital in Al-Basrah during 2010 – 2011 and 2011 – 2012 from October to March .
Leishmania infection of a dermatological is a major problem that faces the patients because it causes abnormalities in the infectied area . The study includes 330 cases of skin ulcer in which 225 of them were positive at the microscopically study by taking the fluid from the ulcer margin then a parasitic growth was done using two types of cultural media NNN and RPMI-1640 . The results has shown a considerable difference between male and female in which male was significantly exceeding 131 (58.22%)and female was 94(41.77%) and 139 (61.77%) of outpatients from rural areas increased in numbers from outpatients of urban areas, and only (38.22%)from urban areas .