Analysis of parasitological reports of feces from the municipal laboratory of Presidente Sarney, Maranhão

Ricardo Márcio Moraes Dávila, Álvaro Luís Bezerra Costa, Renara Fabiane Ribeiro Correa, Paulo Dyago Borges Gomes, Adriana Sousa Rêgo, Marcelino Santos Neto

Abstract

Intestinal parasites are helminths and/or protozoa that live in the human or animal body, feed on blood and intestinal contents, affect about 25% of the world's population and cause numerous health problems. Given this context, the present work aimed to analyze the parasitological reports of feces from the municipal laboratory of Presidente Sarney, Maranhão. This is a cross-sectional, retrospective and quantitative study. The reports used in the research were collected from the laboratory database, from January to December 2020, with the variables analyzed: gender, age group, month of examination, presence or absence, type of parasites and species associations. Data were organized into absolute and percentage values. The gender with the most reports performed was female, with 68.01%. Of the 916 reports collected, 17.58% were positive for some parasite, of which the most frequent protozoan was Entamoeba coli (35.45%), and among the helminths, Ancilostomídeos (15.88%). Among the positive reports, 17.40% of them showed parasitic association. The municipality under study had a reasonable occurrence of parasites in the year 2020, thus, numerous measures must be taken with the intention of reducing or eradicating intestinal parasites, research such as this one can favor the direction of managers to develop basic sanitation actions and campaigns to combat these infections.