Ocorrência De Parasitas Humanos E Elementos Exógenos Em Alfaces Cultivadas Na Região De Inhumas – Goiás

Abstract

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Detection of enteroparasites in foliar vegetables commercialized in street- and supermarkets in Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

“…were also not considered in the analysis. This is the highest percentage of lettuce contamination by parasites ever described in the state of Goiás (Neres et al, 2011;Gomes et al, 2014;Moura et al, 2016;Blanco et al, 2019), and similar or higher percentages have been reported in other cities mainly in the north and northeast of Brazil (Furtado et al, 2015;Novacki et al 2016;Pinto et el., 2018;Carvalho et al, 2019;Oliveira et al, 2020;Rodrigues et al 2020). The high prevalence in cities of these regions may be related to the lower percentages of basic sanitation, with emphasis on the sewage network, as described by Ministry of Cities in the National Plan for Basic Sanitation of 2019 (Brasil, 2019) and by Dantas et al (2012).…”

“…Parasitological evaluations of lettuce and collard green were conducted in the city of Anápolis, and in both surveys the contamination with parasitic protozoa and helminths was demonstrated (Neres et al, 2011;Moura et al, 2016). Gomes et al (2014) also detected enteroparasites in lettuce grown on the edge of the Cascavél river in Goiânia, and Blanco et al (2019) on lettuce produced and sold in the city of Inhumas. In Aparecida de Goiânia, second city in number of inhabitants of the State with almost 600,000 residents according to IBGE (2019), there is no record of parasitological analysis of foliar vegetables.…”

“…and hookworm eggs, being the first record of potential causative agents of larva migrans in Aparecida de Goiânia (Monteiro et al, 2018). It is interesting to note that in studies on the occurrence of vegetables contaminated with intestinal parasites sold in other cities in the State of Goiás, eggs of A. lumbricoides, H. nana and hookworms were also detected, which shows that these worms are common in the region (Neres et al, 2011;Gomes et al, 2014;Moura et al, 2016;Blanco et al, 2019). In the present study, the identification of most nematodes to the species level was not carried out and, thus, the parasites found could be human parasites or species of animals as the definitive hosts and represent a potential risk to cause anthropozoonoses.…”