Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Egyptian Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

The global prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is continuously rising; however, little is known about intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) and IBD. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of IPIs among IBD patients through a case-control study and to correlate the positive cases to the sociodemographic risk factors of IPIs among the study groups. A one-year case-control study included patients with IBD (n = 125) and healthy controls (n = 125).