Helmintofauna de pequenos ruminantes criados no Nordeste brasileiro, abatidos em matadouro no sertão central do Estado do Ceará, Brasil: rendimento de carcaça e desenvolvimento humano.

Abstract

From August 2010 to May 2011 was conducted a study about the parasitism in the organs and attached glands of the gastrointestinal system of goats and sheeps reared in the municipalities of Quixadá, Choró, Banabuiú, Quixeramobim, Ibicuitinga, Morada Nova, Jaguaretama, Itapiúna and Ibaretama, representing a sample of the regions of Central Hinterland and Lower Jaguaribe, sent for slaughter in the municipal public slaughterhouse of Quixadá, state of Ceará. Were simultaneously collected biometric data of children between three months and six years old, born and domiciled in the municipalities of Quixadá and Morada Nova, state of Ceará, accompanied by the Family Health Program, which were compared with the scale standards of reference for the Brazilian population. The study was finished at the ninth month because of the interdiction of the establishment in May 2011. It was showed the parasitism by cestodes of the species Taenia hydatigena (larval form), in a variety of sites (liver, omentum, gallbladder and serosas of duodenum, abomasum, pylorus, uterus, colon, bladder and rumen) and by adult form of Moniezia expansa, in small intestine; by nematodes in abomasum and small intestine (Haemonchus contortus, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, T. axei and Cooperia punctata), and in large intestine (Oesophagostomum columbianum, Trichuris globulosa and T. ovis), with the highest prevalence presented by H. contortus. It was confirmed the hypothesis of low-income housing of sheep and goats, and nutritional deficiency in the population of amerindian heritage, with tradition in the consumption of animal protein; there are sub-nutrition and malnutrition, identified by biometrics data, and there are also cases of obesity in significantly fewer than what happens in the Brazilian population of reference.