PREVALENCIA DE Toxocara spp. EN SUELOS DE SIETE FACULTADES DEL CAMPUS OCTAVIO MÉNDEZ PEREIRA, UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMA.

Eveline Alaín; Nivia Ríos; Alberto Mena; Yazuri Tejada; Nidia Sandoval

Submitted July 16, 2021

Published 2021-07-14

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): Tecnociencia

PREVALENCE OF Toxocara spp. ON THE SOIL OF SEVEN FACULTIES OF THE OCTAVIO MÉNDEZ PEREIRA CAMPUS, UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA.

Eveline Alaín⁺⁻
Nivia Ríos⁺⁻
Alberto Mena⁺⁻
Yazuri Tejada⁺⁻
Nidia Sandoval⁺⁻

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Alaín, E., Ríos, N., Mena, A., Tejada, Y. and Sandoval, N. (2021) “ UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA”., Tecnociencia, 23(2), pp. 229–243. Available at: https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/tecnociencia/article/view/2279 (Accessed: 28 September 2024).

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A study was conducted to determine the prevalence of Toxocara spp. In seven Faculties of the Octavio Méndez Pereira Campus, 525 soil samples were collected during the dry season between the months of February and March 2018. The samples were processed applying the Ritchie and Willis-Molloy concentration techniques to concentrate and observe the parasitic forms present. The results show that the Faculties with the highest prevalence in Toxocara spp. were the Faculties of Architecture and Social Communication with 66.7%; followed by Natural Sciences, Exact and Technology with 50.0% and Economics with 30.0%. The Faculties with the highest percentage of parasites were: Natural Sciences, Exact and Technology (37%), Pharmacy (15%) and Social Communication (12%). The cats were counted per Faculty in order to make a correlation with the presence of parasites; detecting a correlation factor of 17% between the presence of the parasite in soils and the presence of cats. In general, it was determined that the soils of the Octavio Méndez Pereira Campus are infected with Toxocara spp. Eggs, with a prevalence of 42%.

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