Prevalence of intestinal parasitoses: in children aged 1 to 5 years in a public laboratory in a city in SouthWestern Bahia
International Journal of Development Research
Prevalence of intestinal parasitoses: in children aged 1 to 5 years in a public laboratory in a city in SouthWestern Bahia
Received 13th March, 2020; Received in revised form 27th May, 2020; Accepted 11th June, 2020; Published online 24th July, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Marcelo Viana Duarte . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasite infections in children aged 1 to 5 years in a public laboratory in Southwest Bahia. Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional research was carried out in the city of Vitória da Conquista, located in the State of Bahia, from January to June 2019. Data from the results of laboratory tests of children aged 1 to 5 years were collected. Descriptive analyzes with frequency distribution and central tendency measurements were performed using the Excel 2010 program. Result: From the analyzed data it can be concluded that the most frequent types of parasites were, among the protozoa, Endolimax nana, Giardia Lamblia, Entamoeba Coli; in the helminth group, Strongyloides Stercoralis. Among the 377 samples, 13% of the population had positive results, which claims a good prognosis for the child population of Vitória da Conquista. Conclusion: It is known that intestinal parasites are related to educational access, basic sanitation and family income. Thus, the research is of relevant interest as an epidemiological indicator of enteroparasitic diseases in children for the municipality.
