Prevalencia de tripanosoma sp. en el ganado bovino en las zonas rurales de la provincia del Guayas (Salitre – Samborondón).

Abstract

The present investigative work entitled "Prevalence of Trypanosoma sp. in cattle in rural areas of the province of Guayas (Salitre - Samborondón), "was carried out in 3 cattle ranches and a 1 farm in the saltpeter and Samborondón sector in the province of Guayas, where blood samples were taken to be analyzed in the Veterinary Laboratory of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil in the months of June, July and August of the present year, 2018. For this research work samples of 200 heads of cattle were obtained and for the laboratory analysis the Giemsa technique was used. The main objective of this work was to determine the prevalence of Trypanosoma sp., In apparently healthy cattle in rural areas of the province of Guayas in 2 haciendas in the Salitre and Samborondón cantons. The results show that there were no positive samples for Trypanosoma, in the animals studied in this sector of the Province of Guayas, but there was evidence of Babesia sp. and Anaplasma marginale.