Frecuencia de parasitosis intestinales en asentamientos humanos irregulares

Abstract

OBJETIVE: TO DETERMINATE THE FREQUENCY OF INTESTINAL PARASITOSIS IN IRREGULAR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND DESCRIBE SOME FEATURES OF IMPORTANCE FOR TRANSMISSION. MATERIAL AND METHOD: COPROPARASITOSCOPIC ANALYSIS WAS PRACTICED IN INHABITANTS OF A COMMUNITY IN MAGDALENA CONTRERAS, MEXICO CITY. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: THE PROTOZOOSES MOST FREQUENTLY FOUND WERE: GIARDIASIS (29.98%) AND ENTAMEBIASIS BY ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA (7.29%) AND ENTAMOEBA COLI, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT CONSIDERED A PATHOGEN, WAS FOUND IN 17.71%. WITH RESPECT TO HELMINTHIASIS, ASCARIOSIS PREDOMINATED WITH 9.04%, FOLLOWED BY HYMENOLEPIASIS (5.53%), TRICHOCEPHALOSIS (3.91%) AND ENTEROBIASIS (1.48%). PARASITIC ASSOCIATIONS SUCH AS GIARDIA LAMBLIA / ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES AND GIARDIAN LAMBLIA ENTAMOEBA COLI WERE FOUND IN PERCENTAGES OF 4.18 AND 3.64 RESPECTIVELY. THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THIS POPULATION FAVORS THE TRANSMISSION OF INTESTINAL PARASITOSIS.