Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites in a Sample of Food Handlers at a State Enterprise

• Main Authors: Nelson Sanguinetty M, Zenair Valero B., Yossiane Carrizo S., Bárbara Andrade
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2014
• Subjects: Parásitos Intestinales; Blastocystis sp; Manipuladores de Alimentos; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; East Lake; Ritchie
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f6a2bd35413445c2aac16a56a9a120eb

The objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites in food handlers at several PDVSA dining rooms, who requested a health certificate at PDVSA clinics on the East Lake Coast. One-hundred sixty-six stool samples were analyzed using parasitological methods: microsco...