Identificación y prevalencia de parásitos gastrointestinales en bovinos del cantón Centinela del Cóndor en la provincia de Zamora Chinchipe.

Abstract

This research, was carried out on farms belonging to suppliers involved in the project. “Promotion of technological change in cattle in pastoral areas in the provinces of Loja and Zamora Chinchipe” and the subsequent analysis is what was done at the Laboratory of Animal Health and Zoonosis Department of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the UTPL through flotation methods for qualitative and method of McMaster analysis to quantify the amount of helminth. To determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in cattle herds, 188 samples were taken randomly from 18 farms (10 individuals / UPA), which allowed us to determine the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in this study had a rate of 97.8% Strongylida order corresponding to a degree of mild infection in most farms with values of 97.8%, the presence and action of different genres parasitic determined differs from the type of operation, management, age and level infection grazing areas.