Parasitas intestinais e comensais em indivíduos de três Vilas Rurais do Estado do Paraná, Brasil

Abstract

As Vilas Rurais implantadas no Paraná, constituíram-se em experiência pioneira de assentamento rural no Brasil para proporcionarem moradia e trabalho com assistência técnica. Este trabalho, realizado entre fevereiro/2001 e fevereiro/2003, teve como objetivo verificar a ocorrência de enteroparasitismo e promover atividades de educação sanitária para a população de três vilas. Foram realizados exames coproparasitológicos pelos métodos de Hoffman e Faust, tratamento e controle de cura dos indivíduos parasitados, atividades de educação sanitária e treinamento de uma equipe de agentes multiplicadores. Enterobius vermicularis, ancilostomídeos e Giardia lamblia foram os parasitas mais prevalentes juntamente com o comensal Entamoeba coli. A avaliação do conhecimento sobre saúde, realizada antes e após a aplicação de educação sanitária, mostrou uma apropriação do conhecimento de até 74,5%. Neste trabalho constatou-se que, apesar dessas comunidades estarem oficialmente estabelecidas, há escassez de programas voltados à área de saúde para os moradores das Vilas Rurais, comprometendo seu crescimento e sustentabilidade.

Enteroparasitosis and their ethnographic relationship to food handlers in a tourist and economic center in Paraná, Southern Brazil

“…The occurrence of enteroparasites in food handlers in the municipality of Cascavel, in the total population as well in the different occupational categories, is within the range of 13.9 to 46.9% found in studies in other municipalities of the state 7,8,15,16,18,24 . This rather high occurrence is significant if we consider that this municipality possesses a relatively high IDH for the state, and is located in relatively well-developed southern Brazil.…”

“…The state of Paraná, located in relatively prosperous southern Brazil, has many communities that show high prevalences of intestinal parasites 8,15,16,18,24 . However, no study has dealt with the presence of enteroparasites in food handlers in this state.…”

Prevalence of enteroparasites in rural and urban children in the municipalities of Bocaiúva do Sul and Colombo, Paraná, Brazil

“…However, although the decrease in helminths prevalence detected may be due to health education and mass treatment programs (Guilherme et al, 2004;Oishi et al, 2019). some protozoa considered commensals for humans were detected in this study, such as E. coli, E. nana, E. hartmanni and I. bütschlii and they are indicators of failure in personal hygiene.…”

Intestinal parasites in ecotourism region of the state of Paraná, Brazil

“…The prevalence of this parasite, together with the fecal-orally transmitted commensals such as Entamoeba coli, found in 32.9% of the population of Ubiratã, functioned as the bioindicators of the socio-environmental conditions, hygiene, basic sanitation and quality of the life of the population (Costa-Macedo et al, 1999;Faulkner et al, 2003). Person-to-person transmission of the giardiasis could also be an important factor, because in the closed communities such as the schools and daycare centers, or in the residences that were very close to each other, fecal-oral propagation of many intestinal parasites and commensals could be facilitated (Guilherme et al, 2004;Pupulim et al, 2004). Although the prevalence of G. intestinalis in Ubiratã were similar to the prevalence levels in other cities in Paraná (Márquez et al, 2002;Ferreira et al, 2004;Giraldi et al, 2004;Pupulin et al, 2004), this prevalence might be higher, because this protozoan, in addition to the reasons listed at the end of the previous paragraph, sheded cysts intermittently (Rocha et al, 2000).…”

“…However, in a country where intestinal parasitoses figure among the main public-health problems, the parasitological investigation has been widely neglected (Ferreira and Marçal Jr., 1997). In Paraná, thorough investigations of the fecal parasites have focused mainly on the school-age children residing in the larger cities such as Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá and Cascavel (Ogliari and Passos, 2002;Márquez et al, 2002;Pupulim et al, 2004). Little is known about the prevalence of the intestinal parasites and commensals in the medium-sized and small cities in the state.…”