بررسی میزان آلودگی انگلی سبزیجات خام مصرفی شهر سنندج در سال 1392

Introduction and purpose: Parasitic diseases have led to economic and health&nbsp;problems around the world. One of the most common ways for the transmission&nbsp;of these diseases is the consumption of raw vegetables contaminated with&nbsp;parasite. These diseases can be prevented through obtaining knowledge about the&nbsp;parasitic contamination of the vegetables. Regarding this, the aim of the present&nbsp;study was to evaluate the prevalence and type of raw vegetables &nbsp;contamination&nbsp;in Sanandaj, Iran, in 2013.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 360 vegetable samples&nbsp;distributed in 60 greengroceries in Sanandaj in 2017. The data were analyzed&nbsp;using the SPSS version 16.Results: In total, 16.3% of the vegetable samples were contaminated with various&nbsp;types of parasites, including free-living nematode (12.2%), Entamoeba coli&nbsp;(1.7%), Giardia (0.8%), Blastocystis hominis (0.8%), and Dicrocoelium (0.8%).&nbsp;However, most of the contaminations (81.6%) were found in the vegetables,&nbsp;which were imported from regions other than Kurdistan province. Basil had the&nbsp;highest level of contamination, whereas coriander and lettuce had the lowest&nbsp;contamination level (P=0<05). Additionally, the vegetables had the highest and&nbsp;lowest contamination levels in the winter and spring, respectively.Conclusion: Regarding the findings of the present study, it is recommend to&nbsp;thoroughly perform parasite decontamination before the consumption of&nbsp;vegetables. Furthermore, the officials can prevent the parasitic diseases by &nbsp;careful monitoring of public food distribution centers and controlling the source&nbsp;of vegetables in the winter.