Human intestinal parasitosis: narrative study about scientific publications

Abstract

Intestinal parasittosis is caused by infectious microorganisms that are intrinsically related to precarious sanitary conditions, housing conditions and in some cases lack of hygiene information, thus becoming a major public health problem with a worldwide repercussion, including in Brazil with numbers considered mortality. The WHO reported in 2000 that on average 3.5 million people were affected, of which more than 450 billion were children. Thus arises the restlessness as has been given epidemiological scientific studies of human intestinal parasitoses, published since this year 2000 in Brazil, as well as raise studies on the identification of parasites that has intestinal tropism its etiology, morphology and signs and symptoms of the disease. In addition, to contribute and cooperate to know this problematic permeating a direction for planning, prophylaxis, health education from the existing studies. This study is effective from a bibliographic review of a qualitative narrative of complete scientific articles arranged in Google Scholar and siELO with searches from the descriptors: Epidemiological Profile; Parasitology and Human Intestinal Parasitosis and Books that portray this theme. This study is organized in III chapters, being addressed in I - Abstract, Introduction and Epidemiological Profile; II - Epistemology of the Study of Parasitosis in Brazil and finally III - Discretion of Human Intestinal Parasitoses and Final Considerations. Therefore, it was possible to contact that even with a high incidence of cases still affected by the precariousness of publications of scientific articles that permeate this subject in Brazil, nevertheless there is existence of materials such as books of renowned authors and manuals arranged by the ministry of health that describes with excellence concepts, parasite signs and symptoms of parasitic intestinal diseases as can be described in this paper.