SANTOS, J. R. S.; SANTOS, Jéssica Rosa Silva.
Resumo:
Parasitic diseases have shown high levels of prevalence in underdeveloped countries.
This fact occurs because the diseases are linked to several risk factors. One of these
factors is the socio-economic condition. This essay aim to report the recurrency of
intestinal parasitosis in Catolé do Rocha, a city from Paraíba state. Data were collected
in Centro de Saúde from the Excel sheets which contained the result of the parasitic
exams taken between 2015 and 2016. 3.244 samples were analyzed, in which 57.09
% of them are positive. The most common parasite between the parasitic helminths
was the Ascaris lumbricoides, present in 49.95% of the cases and between the
protozoans it was found the Giardia lamblia with 20.85%. Within the positive results
77.86% presented monoparasitosis and 22.14% presented poliparasitosis. In
conclusion, almost 60% of the patients had at least one kind of parasite, in which the
helminths were more numerous than the protozoans. Due to this conclusion, fighting
against these parasites and raise
