Prevalencia de parasitosis intestinal en habitantes de la parroquia principal del cantón Chordeleg- Azuay. 2016

Abstract

The Intestinal parasitic infections are found in the mayor disseminate pathologies at global level, which becomes in a great problem for public health, the high rate frequency is linked to deficient factors such as lack of suitable places, sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental aspects. All of them are affecting the countries that are starting their development and Ecuador is one of them. All these factors affect over the Ecuadorians society so that the style of life becomes deficient.

OBJECTIVE Determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitism in habitants of Principal parish of Canton Chordeleg-Azuay. Year 2016. METHODOLOGY There was done an investigation of descriptive transversal cut, in habitants of Principal parish, The universe was 1331 habitants and the sample of 298 habitants, the used instrument was the poll, for data tabulation of the information was used the programs Microsoft EXCEL and SPSS V23. RESULTS The 48 % of the population reported parasitism, being 72,7 % monoparasitism and 27,3 % polyparasitism, Women were the most affected (70.6%), According to ranges of age, the Middle-adult group was the most representative (30.8%). The most prevalent parasite was the Amoeba Histolytica (46.7%) followed by the Amoeba Coli (34.6%), Ascaris lumbricoides and Giardia lamblia represented 8.8%. Finally, the Chilomastix mesnili 1.1%.