Prevalencia de parásitos gastrointestinales en cerdos mestizos en la parroquia Nuevo Paraíso

Abstract

In Francisco de Orellana, province of Orellana, the communities of the Nuevo Paraíso parish do not have an adequate deworming schedule, therefore, the pigs have presented pictures of parasitosis, and their productive parameters are reduced as well as the economic profitability, therefore, the objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in mestizo pigs of the Nuevo Paraíso parish. For the selection of the sample, a sampling was carried out for a finite population of the entire population of 473 pigs, data obtained from the doses applied of the vaccine against swine fever (CSF) Nuevo Paraíso by the Agency of Regulation and Control of Phytosanitary and Zoosanitary (AGROCALIDAD). The methodology implemented began with the collection of coprological samples, which were taken one for each animal, 139 in total. Descriptive statistics was applied with the calculation of frequencies. The collection of coprological samples was taken from each animal. The variables considered for grouping the results of the parasitology analysis were type of parasite, level of infestation, physiological state and sex. The main parasite genera found were Coccidia spp. 37.0 percent, Strongyloides spp. 27.0 percent, Ascaris suum 13.0 percent, Ostertagia spp. 9.0 percent, Oesophagostomum spp 5.0 percent and Haemonchus contortus 3.0 percent, with high parasitosis level 8.0 percent, medium 32.0 percent and low 42.0 percent. It was concluded that 49 percent of the pigs in the Nuevo Paraíso parish had internal parasites, 51 percent had no parasitic agents and 10 percent had mixed parasitosis, that is, they were affected by more than one genus of parasites.