We report a case of Fasciola hepatica in a 50 year-old woman born in Huaral, Lima, and living in Ate Vitarte, district of Lima, Peru, who was admitted because of seven days of disease characterized by progressive abdominal pain. She visited Ate’s Hospital because of right hipocondrial and epigastric cramping abdominal pain in the morning accompanied by nausea and vomiting in four opportunities. Conjunctives were slightly icteric, abdomen was distended and depressible, there was no visceromegaly, Murphy’s sign was positive, and thorax and lungs showed no alterations. At cholecistectomy three specimens identified as Fasciola hepatica were extracted. Following treatment with triclabendazole, clinical course was uneventful.

Se reporta el caso de un varón de 45 años procedente de la Amazonía peruana, quien presentó ardor asociado con edema y hemorragia conjuntival en el borde ocular externo del ojo derecho, durante once meses. Se observó un helminto localizado en la cavidad orbitaria derecha, el cual se extrajo y por estudios morfológicos e histopatológicos se identificó como Spirometra mansonoides de localización ocular el que se reporta por primera vez en el Perú.

Introduction. Helminth parasites cause nutritional, physical, and cognitive decline. The WHO has expressed the need to map the prevalence of parasites in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Peru there are no studies that have measured the prevalence of this pathology. Objectives. To determine the frequency of general parasitosis and by type of helminth in 2017 and the trend of the last 8 previous ones, years nationally and by department. Methods. Analysis of secondary database (Health Information System: HIS) from 2010 to 2017, which contains the record of care in health facilities of the Ministry of Health. For the analysis of trends, segmented regression models were used. Results. At the national level, general parasites and helminth parasites were 4,9% and 3,3%, respectively, in 2017; both presented a downward trend, decreasing each year by 8,8%...

The aim of this study was to compare different methods of concentration to recover the largest number of Giardia spp. cysts from coprological samples. One hundred (100) samples from national reference hospitals were analyzed and four parasitological methods were applied: spontaneous tube sedimentation concentration (TSET), Faust, single-phase sucrose gradient, and two-phase sucrose gradient. The two-phase sucrose gradient method was found to achieve significantly better results in cyst concentration (121,903 cysts/ml) and amount of debris (6%), compared to Faust methods (35,355 cysts/ml), spontaneous tube sedimentation concentration (20,145 cysts/ml), and single-phase sucrose gradient (18,702 cysts/ml). It is concluded that the most effective method for the concentration and purification of Giardia spp. cysts from coprological samples is the two-phase sucrose gradient method, which would...

Objetivo: Determinar la frecuencia de enteroparasitosis en niños de 1 a 10 años de una comunidad rural del departamento de Lima-Perú. Material y métodos: Estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal. La población de estudio fueron los niños de 1 a 10 años. Se usó el examen coproparasitológico microscópico directo y el método deGraham. Se analizaron los datos mediante el programa Microsoft Excel 2010. Resultados: Se estudiaron 36 (100%) niños, 22 (61,1%) resultaron ser mono parasitados y 10 (27,8%) multiparasitados. El parásito intestinal más observado fue el Blastocystis hominis en el 33,3% de los casos. Conclusiones: Se identificó a una población que en su gran mayoría presentaron carencias sanitarias y que vivían en condiciones rurales, y que tuvieron una alta frecuencia de enteroparasitosis tanto con el examen coproparasitológico microscópico directo como...