Epidemiologia das doenças parasitárias da população humana do Município de Catolé do Rocha, PB, Brasil.

Abstract

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