Determinación de vermes intestinales zoonóticos en heces caninas recolectadas en parques y áreas verdes de las Parroquias urbanas de la Ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

This research entitled Determination of zoonotic intestinal worms in feces collected in parks and green areas in the urban parishes of the city of Cuenca, is directed to the field of small animal parasitology and public health, nematodes (Toxocara canis, Ancylostoma caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala.) and tapeworm (Echinococcus granulosus) are characterized by gastrointestinal tract infection cause destroying the epithelium and spreading to other organs to meet or wait for the process of its evolution cycle, course in which processes occurring zoonotic antropozoonótics, metazoonótics, saprozoonótics or ciclozoonótics causing serious diseases in animals that are within this evolutionary cycle, including man. The study was conducted in the four sectors of health of the city, taking 89 samples from areas between parks and green areas of the city of Cuenca, the diagnosis was used for flotation methods with saturated saline to observe nematodes and sedimentation in distilled water for identifying tapeworms, to then determine the existence under microscopic observation of infecting eggs in each of the prepared samples. With the following results. The chi square was obtained non-significant values which gives us the conclusion that the recreational areas of the city are not exposed to a zoonotic worms level, which may be significantly affecting public health in general, detected according to the degree infestation the following percentages: Toxocara canis: Low to 0.75%, with 0.5% Mild, Moderate and Severe with 0.5% total percentage of 2.44%. Ancylostoma caninum: Low to 2.25%, with 1.25% Mild, Moderate with 0% and Severe to 0.25% with a total percentage of 6.10%. Uncinaria stenocephala: Low to 2.25%, with 0.25% Mild, Moderate with 0.25% and Severe 0% with the total percentage of 4.47%. Echinococcus granulosus: with total percentage of 0.41%