Prevalencia de parásitos gastrointestinales en bovinos mestizos en dos comunidades del cantón Loreto.

Abstract

The communities of Loreto do not have an adequate deworming schedule; therefore, cattle have parasitosis, their productive parameters are reduced as well as economic profitability, therefore, the objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in mestizo cattle in two communities of Loreto canton. For the selection of the sample, a sampling for a finite population was carried out, from the totality of the cattle population. The methodology implemented began with the collection of coprological samples, which were taken one for each animal, 115 in total. Descriptive statistics were applied with the calculation of absolute frequency, relative frequency, cumulative absolute frequency, and relative absolute frequency. The collection of coprological samples was taken from each animal. The variables considered for grouping the results of the parasitology analyses were the type of parasite, level of infestation, bovine category, genetic group, sex, and place of origin. Using this methodology, the prevalence of internal parasites was determined to be 71.30 percent; 40.87 percent of the cattle had mixed parasitosis. The different parasites reported in Loreto are Coccidia spp, 40.31 percent, followed by Estrongyloides spp,12.40 percent, Taenia spp,10.85 percent, Ascaris spp, 9.30 percent, Toxocara spp, 9.30 percent, Ostertagia spp, 6.98 percent, Trichuris spp. 3.88 percent, Trichostrongylus spp, 1.55 percent, Oesophagostomum spp, 1.55 percent, Bunostomum, 1.55 percent, Cooperia spp,0.78 percent, Eimeria spp, 0.78 percent and Marshallagia spp, 0.78 percent. In this context, it is concluded that internal parasites cause damage to the animals and cause significant production losses.