This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Society for Parasitology (ISP) and the Publisher per the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines. The article shows evidence of irregularities in authorship, there is strong reason to believe that the peer review process was compromised and the authors have plagiarized parts from the following articles:

Mohammad Sabzikarian, Saeideh Najafi, Hosein Amini Anabad, Vahid Behnod, Emad Yahaghi, Koorosh Ahmadi, Frequency of intestinal protozoan parasites in patients with gastrointestinal disorders in south of Karaj, Iran. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. DOI: 10.1007/s12639-015-0703-z.

H. Sadeghi, M. Bakht, H. Saghafi, T. Shahsavari, Prevalence of intestinal parasites in a population in Eghbalieh city from Qazvin Province, Iran. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 2015; 39:2 126–129 DOI: 10.1007/s12639-013-0366-6.

As such the validity of the content of this article cannot be verified.

The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material.