Intestinal parasitoid prevalence in Public Schools of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
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https://doi.org/10.54495/Rev.Cientifica.v21i2.134Keywords:
commensal, intestinal parasitism, protozoan, coprologyAbstract
The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitism in school-age children at elementary level in four public schools in Quetzaltenango City, as well as to estimate the frequency of parasites base on genus and species, on all the school population, stratified by school year.
To complain the objective, Peaces samples from students from 5-14 years-old were evaluated in the four schools (Escuela Oficial Manfredo Leal, Escuela Oficial Urbana Mixta “La Ciénaga”, Escuela de Sordomudos “Elisa Molina” y Escuela “Dr. Roberto Molina”), during the period o f May-August 2009.
From a total of 500 students that participated in the study, 146 cases (29.26%) showed intestinal parasitism. The school grades with the highest parasitism were, in descending order: sixth year 38 cases (28.23%), first
year 30 cases (37.5%) and fifth year 24 cases (28.23%). The commensal protozoan species reported were: Endolimax nema (55 cases, 37.67%), Blasiocystis hominis (34 cases, 23.29%), Entamoeba histolytica (29 cases, 19.86% ) , Entamoeba coli ( 12 cases, 8.22% ) , Giardia lamblia ( 8 cases, 5.48%).
Significant difference was determined among the school years with respect to the intestinal parasitism prevalence, p-value <0.05 (p=0.0281 ). Nevertheless, no significant difference wr as observed between the parasitism and
the population gender, p-value >0.05 (p=0.3393).
With the present study, we determined that the prevalence (29.26%) of intestinal parasitism is a Public Health issue, on the infantile population studied; that may have several implications regarding health, such as low nutrient absorption, anemia, malnutrition, bile salts reduction and lesions on intestinal mucosa. It is recommended to cany out appropriate sanitary education, socioeconomic improvements through educational campaigns, microbiological evaluation of drinking water and food.
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