Prevalence of intestinal parasites in children under 12 years attending the Prague Nursery Care in the town of Tiquipaya, city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, during the ll semester 2015
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Pathogenic parasites, Children, Protozoan, Helminths, CommensalAbstract
The objective of this study was to know the prevalence of enteroparasites in the Nursery Child of Prague, an institution that children from families with limited resources attend. The feces of 256 children whose ages ranged from 0 to 72 years were analyzed by means of a conventional coproparasitological analysis with the use of lugol to distinguish the morphology of the parasites.
This is a descriptive and prospective study, in which we found that 62% of the children were parasitized by one or more species of commensal and / or pathogenic parasites.
Regarding the parasitic species found, more than half of the children were parasitized by the protozoan Blastocystis hominis (53%), whereas only one case ofparasitosis was found by the helminth Enterobius vermicularis.
Relating the age of the children to the parasitic species, we found that almost half of the children from 4 to 7 years had Blastocystis hominis, whereas helminths such as Hymenolepis nana and Enterobius vermicularis were found only in children older than 4 years. No cases of helminthiasis were found in children younger than 3 years.
97% of the children had one or more species of commensal protozoans, whereas only 72% had helminths.
As for the number of parasitic species found, only 1% of the children had polyparasitosis cases, whereas 53% were parasitized by only one parasite (monoparasitism).
It is concluded that more than half of the children attending this nursery suffer from some type of enteroparasitosis, a situation that can affect their development.
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