Abstract

GUERRERO DE ABREU, Arli Marlinet; RODRIGUEZ, Noelia  and  ROMERO, Daniela. STUDY OF HELMINTH PARASITES IN BEACH SAND "EL PALITO ", MUNICIPALITY PUERTO CABELLO ,  STATE CARABOBO .VENEZUELA . Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2017, vol.15, n.1, pp.1-8. ISSN 1690-3293.

The beaches are the main natural resource of the Venezuelan tourism, and Government Institutions provides parameters that evaluate the environmental quality; they only have established bacterial biological indicators and excluding the identification of parasites in beach sand, which leads greater exposure to helminths infections. Five samplings from the beach El Palito was conducted during the period April 2014 - April 2015 for a total of 60 samples in April, June and September 2014; February and April 2015, considering various environmental factors such as the pre-holiday and post-holiday seasons, the relative humidity of the sand and the seasons of rain and drought, according to the annual reports of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMEH). The aim was to analyze the frequency and ratio geohelminths on beach sand with environmental conditions, by the method of irrigation and spontaneous sedimentation using saline 0.85%, the Willis method and the Rugai Modified method. Recovery of pathogenic parasitic forms for human was not demonstrated, indicating that there is low probability of zoonotic transmission on the beach evaluated.

Keywords : geohelminths; zoonoses; parasitic infection; beach sand.

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