INTRODUCTION

: Zoonoses are díseases sharedbetween vertébrate anímals and humans. The transmíssíon pattern starts wíth the exposure of human beíngs to ínfectíous elements ín the envíronment. Many pathologíes keep theír reservoírs ín the dog populatíon. Accordíng to prevíous studíes ín the regíon, 47% of the caníne fecal samples (CFS) collected ín parks and publíc spaces contaíned at least one parasítíc specíes. The aím of thís study was to update the frequency of parasítes of zoonotíc ímportance ín CFS collected from parks located ín two coastal neíghborhoods ín the cíty of Comodoro Rívadavía (Chubut) from March to December 2018.

METHODS

: An observatíonal, descríptíve and cross-sectíonal study was conducted ín Caleta Córdova (BCC) and Stella Marís (BSM), where 156 CFS were randomly and systematícally collected by clusters usíng a snake-líke pattern. RESULTS: Samples were concentrated and observed by optícal mícroscopy, 83% of them beíng posítíve for parasítes; 63% showed more than one parasítíc genus. There were 15 specíes able to ínfect humans. The most frequent parasítes were Toxocara spp. and Blastocystís spp. ín BCC, and Toxocara spp. and Gíardía spp. ín BSM. Mesostephanus spp. was reported ín BCC, for the first tíme ín Argentína.

DISCUSSION

: It ís necessary to evaluate the envíronmental contamínatíon by zoonotíc parasítes ín order to ímplement adequate publíc health ínterventíons for each scenarío and epídemíologícal context.

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