Influencia de la edad, raza y el sexo sobre la prevalencia de Tripanosomiasis en bovinos del cantón El Carmen.

Abstract

This disease is caused by different species of unicellular eukaryotic parasites of the genus Trypanosoma, according to the study carried out to determine the prevalence of bovine trypanosomiasis in the El Carmen canton, period 2021, the results obtained could identify 5.5% prevalence for Trypanosoma Sp. The representation of this agent was identified in the San Pedro de Suma parish with a prevalence of 4.4%, and in the 4 de December parish with a prevalence of 30%, thus the 4 de December parish obtained a higher index of prevalence and San Pedro de Suma the lowest, in what is based on the age, race and sex variables, the results obtained in the age variable show us that animals under one year of age have a greater predisposition to suffer from the disease, expressing a 73 % of positivity in the total number ofanimals that identified the causal agent prone to getting the disease, in the race variable the Taurus are more likely to get the disease Actually, the sex variable shows us that females are more likely to get the disease, there are many risk factors such as anemia, abortions, diseases transmitted by ticks, flies, history of hemotropic diseases and as a protection factor technical assistance, deworming, quarantines and according to the cross-sectional study of the disease, risk and protection factors can be established.