Relationship between education and incidence of children enteroparasitosis in Quillacollo city (Relación entre la escolaridad y la incidencia de enteroparasitosis infantil en la ciudad de Quillacollo)

Background: Parasitic diseases in our country constitute a health,social and economic problem that is highly prevalent especiallythose that are hosted in man digestive tract.Objective: To analyze the relationship between educational leveland the incidence of parasitic infections in apparently healthychildren of primary school in Quillacollo city diagnosed by simplecopro-parasitological during I-2011 administration.Methods: This is a is observational, descriptive, cross-sectionaland quantitative study.Results: It was performed a total of 720 copro-parasitological examinations(n = 720) from a total of 400 women and 320 men fromfi rst to fi fth grade, of which 97,22% were parasitized by some kindof intestinal parasites. In the same data we found 61,11% of multiparasitosiscorresponding to 440 children and 36,11% of monoparasitosis.With respect to gender, it could be found that 100% ofwomen have some sort of intestinal parasites, and 93,75% of maleare parasitized. In global terms, there were a total of 1270 parasitizedchildren in the total sample. The average is 1,76 parasitizedper child examined. The parasite that was found more frequentlywas Entamoeba histolytica in a ratio of 39,37% with respect to totalparasites found, followed by Giardia lamblia with 22,02%.Conclusions: Nearly 100% of children between fi rst and fi fth gradefrom elementary school have some kind of intestinal parasites. Therewere just found 20 individuals with negative coproparasitologic. -RESUMEN: Introducción: Las enfermedades parasitarias en nuestro país constituyenun problema sanitario, económico y social de gran prevalenciaespecialmente aquellas que son albergadas en el tracto digestivodel hombre.Objetivo: Analizar la relación entre el nivel de escolaridad y laincidencia de enteroparasitosis en ni os aparentemente sanos de nivelprimario en la ciudad de Quillacollo durante la gestión I-2011diagnosticados mediante copro-parasitológico simple.Material y Métodos: El presente estudio es de tipo; observacional,descriptivo, de corte transversal, cuantitativo.Resultados: Se realizaron un total de 720 exámenes copro-parasitologicos(n = 720) de un total de 400 mujeres y 320 varonesde primero a quinto de primaria, de los cuáles un 97,22% se encontraronparasitados por algún tipo de enteroparasitosis, En losmismos datos pudimos constatar la presencia de multiparasitosis enun 61,11% correspondientes a 440 ni os, así como un 36,11% deindividuos con un solo parasito intestinal. Con relación al génerose pudo encontrar que el 100% de las mujeres tienen algún tipo deenteroparasitosis, y en relación a