Identificación de parasitismo intestinal por microscopia directa en materia fecal en los habitantes de la Comunidad de Carchi, Cantón el Tambo, Provincia del Cañar, julio 2015- enero 2016

Abstract

Background: Parasitism is considered a disease of public health in Ecuador and worldwide due to lack of social economic, cultural, environmental, psychological and social conditions that influence lower socio-economic status in the country causing symptomatology and complications. Therefore, affected individuals' life styles become deteriorated.

Objective: Identifying intestinal parasitism through direct microscopy on fecal matter among inhabitants of Cachi, Tambo-Cañar, July 2015- January 2016.

Methodology: It is a descriptive transversal cut study where 140 people out of the total numbers of inhabitants became part of. The participants signed an informed consent which explained the procedures. In case of underage people, authorized people signed it. A survey to gather filiation data and related information to variables was conducted.

Samples were obtained under quality and biosafety standards. These were processed at “Centro de Diagnóstico de la Universidad de Cuenca”. The results and final information were analyzed on Excel program for statistics and descriptive SPSS V22.

Results: Results helped to identify health condition of inhabitants of Cachi community and they are the followings: 62% intestinal parasitosis, 70% monoparasitism, 29.9% poliparasitism. Entamoeba histolytica is present in a 57.5%, Entamoeba Coli 46%, Giardia lamblia 28.7, Ascaris lumbricoides 4.6%, Hymenolepis nana and Strongyloides stercoralis 1% each.