Heavy Metal Contaminations in Urban Soil within Baghdad City, Iraq

Viral hepatitis E outbreak in Al-Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq.

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of acute hepatitis in many developing countries. This study describes an outbreak of HEV infection in Al-Sadr city, Baghdad. Blood samples obtained from patients with jaundice attending 19 primary health care centres in AI-Sadr city during a 6-month period in 2005 were tested for HEV. HEV (IgM) antibodies were detected in 38.1% of 268 patients. The assoc...

Heavy Metal Accumulation in Urban Soil: a Phytoextraction Method Review

Lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and arsenic (As) are three common non-essential heavy metals found in urban soils and can prove toxic to animals, humans, and some plants at low concentrations. The main exposure pathways of heavy metals in humans are through ingestion and inhalation of soil particles and ingestion of contaminated food. When dealing with contaminated soil in urban environments, activiti...

A review of heavy metal contaminations in urban soils, urban road dusts and agricultural soils from China

Optimum efficiency of treatment plants discharging wastewater into river, case study: Tigris river within the Baghdad city in Iraq

The present study aims to manage and determine the most economical efficiency of five wastewater treatment plants discharging wastewater into the Tigris River in Iraq. The management system was based on ensuring the five-day biological oxygen demand concentration in the river is <30 mg/L according to the Iraqi standards. In many cases, the determined optimized efficiencies were found to be lowe...

Molecular diagnosis of naturally infection with Eimeria stiedae in domestic rabbits in Baghdad city-Iraq

This study was designed for parasitological and molecular diagnosis of hepatic coccidiosis in rabbits. The ten hindered of local breed rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) of both sexes were used. The animals were brought from the local markets in Baghdad city during the period from the beginning of January 2016 to 30th May 2016. The total infection rate was 19%, in which 18% males and 20% in female...