First reports from urbanorum spp, meeting in sus patient floes in a private imperatriz laboratory during 2018
International Journal of Development Research
First reports from urbanorum spp, meeting in sus patient floes in a private imperatriz laboratory during 2018
Received 17th July, 2019; Received in revised form 29th August, 2019; Accepted 10th September, 2019; Published online 23rd October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Jeferson Noslen Casarin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Enteroparasites comprise a species of organisms that affect the gastrointestinal tract of humans and depending on the degree of pathogenicity may lead to the death of the infected individual. In addition to the most frequent intestinal parasites found in Brazil, there are now reports of the appearance of Urbanorum spp., A new parasite discovered by researcher Francisco Tirado Santamaria, parasitologist at the Universidad Industrial de Santander - Colombia. This parasite is beginning to be reported in the literature by researchers from Brazil. Therefore, this research was proposed to investigate if infection occurs in Urbanorum spp. in the city of Imperatriz - Ma. The research took place from 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018, the stool samples analyzed were from SUS patients who were performing routine examinations in a private laboratory convened to the SUS of the Municipality. Of Imperatriz, being a total of 5428 parasitological exams performed in the referred laboratory in the studied period, and from this total 25 positive samples were found for Urbanorum spp. thus demonstrating that the parasite is already in the region and these are the first reports of this new parasite in the city of Imperatriz - MA.
