Incidencia de patologías gastrointestinales parasitarias en cachorros atendidos en la clínica veterinaria La Moderna de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The study entitled Incidence of parasitic gastrointestinal pathologies in puppies treated at the La Moderna veterinary clinic had a non-experimental design, with a quantitative and correlational approach, it is aimed at the field of parasitology and clinic, these parasites infest the digestive tract causing disorders to the animals, being very harmful to the puppies. It is vitally important to know the parasites present in order to use deworming protocols and specific therapies for the injuries they cause. To identify the presence of forms of dispersion of gastrointestinal parasites, the flotation technique with saturated saline solution was used, with which the presence of parasites was determined, finding 78 % in the puppies under study and that presented associated gastrointestinal pathologies. to parasites; the sex of the infested canines was 34 % females and 66 % corresponded to males and; the breed with the highest percentage observed was the mestizo who are the ones that suffer from some type of parasite, within these we can mention, with more cases, the genera of Isosporas in 12 puppies, Amoebas in 8, Toxocara and Ancylostoma in 5, larva of Toxocara in two and without parasites in 12 cases. Among the gastrointestinal pathologies found, abdominal swelling predominated in 100 % of the puppies analyzed; diarrhea occurred in 84 % of patients; followed by 68 % of cases with vomiting. According to Villacrés (2021) the females in his study were the most parasitized, in terms of the parasite genus according to Úbeda (2017) the most frequent was Toxocara followed by Ancylostoma.