Martínez Barbabosa I, Ruiz González L A, Gutiérrez Quiroz M, Fernández Presas A M, Vásquez Tsuji O
Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.
Bol Chil Parasitol. 1997 Jan-Jun;52(1-2):12-7.
Toxocariosis is a zoonosis which has been widely studied in dogs. However, not much is known about this parasitosis in cats. The aim of the present work was to determine the frequency of Toxocara cati in domestic cats in Mexico City and the State of Mexico. Feces of 660 domestic cats were studied by the Faust concentration-floating test; 401 samples were from cats living in Mexico City of which 308 lived in houses and 93 in apartments; 231 were from urban areas of the State of Mexico and 28 from a rural area of the same state. The total frequency of T. cati eggs obtained from domestic cats in Mexico City was 42.9%; in cats living in apartments it was 18.3% and in cats living in houses it was 50.3%. In domestic cats from the State of Mexico, T. cati frequency was 36.4% in the urban and 21.4% in the rural areas. We consider that toxocariosis frequency observed at the two studied sites is high and that the need to prevent dissemination of the infectious forms of T. cati is urgent, as is the necessity of informing the population of the risk of living with T. cati parasited animals and of the anatomopathological alterations caused by T. cati in man.
弓首蛔虫病是一种人畜共患病，已在犬类中得到广泛研究。然而，对于猫的这种寄生虫病，人们了解得并不多。本研究的目的是确定墨西哥城和墨西哥州家猫中猫弓首蛔虫的感染率。通过福斯特氏浓缩漂浮法对660只家猫的粪便进行了研究；401份样本来自生活在墨西哥城的猫，其中308只生活在住宅中，93只生活在公寓中；231份来自墨西哥州的城市地区，28份来自该州的农村地区。从墨西哥城家猫中获得的猫弓首蛔虫卵的总感染率为42.9%；生活在公寓中的猫为18.3%，生活在住宅中的猫为50.3%。在墨西哥州的家猫中，猫弓首蛔虫在城市地区的感染率为36.4%，在农村地区为21.4%。我们认为，在两个研究地点观察到的弓首蛔虫病感染率很高，迫切需要防止猫弓首蛔虫感染性形态的传播，同样有必要告知人们与感染猫弓首蛔虫的动物生活在一起的风险以及猫弓首蛔虫在人类中引起的解剖病理学改变。
