Wisam Mahdi Al-Said, Hussein Mahmoud Abdullah
This study was conducted in Erbil city to investigate the incidence of Isospora belli infection among children with leukemia by laboratory testing of stool samples obtained from 26 children with leukemia using different methods such as N. saline, iodine stool smears, Sheathers flotation and modified Ziel-Neelson methods. Isospora belli was detected in only one of the 26 sick children (3.8%). To study the incidence of Isospora belli infection in children with diarrhea, especially in the immunocompromised group with leukemia.