ANDRADE JÚNIOR, F. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9204428116648980; ANDRADE JÚNIOR, Francisco Patrício de.
Resumo:
Contemned hands by intestinal parasites can easily pass them on to the food products and consequently to the consumer, therefore professionals that are responsible for the food handling can actuate as disseminator of these pathogens. The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of enteroparasites and the variables epidemiological associated to the parasitic infection in school lunch handlers of Cuité-PB. The fecal samples that were analyzed through the simple centrifugal-sedimentation method and a questionnaire was applied to 57 school lunch handlers from 11 school in the municipality of Cuité, in the period of August to December of 2017; the work was duly approved by the ethics committee with the following number of opinions: 1.258.124. It was utilized the chi-squared test and the variables were analyzed starting on the Software Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Among the 57 school lunch handlers, 78,9% were infected by enteroparasites/nonpathogenic. Endolimax nana was the most prevalent species (53,4%). It has also been found the pathogenic species Giardia lamblia, Ascaris lumbricoides, Hymenolepis nana and Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar. Regarding the profile of affected patients ,100% of the infected were female, 48,9% had low schooling, 53,3% had family income up to a minimum wage and 60% were between 20-49 years. About 40% of the infected were bi-polyparasite and 35.6% and 80% had inadequate water and sewage, respectively. While 40% of the infected did not know what is parasitism and 48,9% did not know how they could get it. Regarding the qualification of these professionals, 43,9% of the manipulators had never done treatment in food handling and 3,4% had never done parasitological examination of feces (PEF). Faced with the high prevalence of the infected, it was concluded that is necessary sanitary e educational, improvements, in good practice training of manipulation, as well as the periodic realization of parasitological examination of feces.