Endoparasitoses in domestic canines and feline in the UDES Valledupar veterinary clinic

We contextualize the link between animals and humans that favors the appearance of zoonotic diseases such as parasitic infections. Hemoparasites are among the main challenges in clinical veterinary medicine, due to the serious clinical signs they cause in infected dogs and cats. What clinical signs can occur? Can a clinical examination solve these problems? Hemoparasites are among the main challenges in clinical veterinary medicine, due to the serious clinical signs they cause in infected dogs and cats. With the objective of determining the prevalence of vector-borne diseases and gastrointestinal parasitosis in canines and felines, by reviewing the clinical records of patients who arrived at the UDES Campus Valledupar veterinary clinic. The present work has as methodology; During the years 2019 and 2020, a retrospective descriptive study was carried out, where information was collected from the medical history of 95 canines and 12 domestic felines such as: breed, age, sex, weight, symptoms and clinical signs, as well as data from the blood count and coprological examination. The results obtained determined that the prevalence of parasitic diseases was 34.57%, the most frequent parasites in hematological and coprological examinations were Anaplasma spp, Eimeria spp, and Ancylostoma spp; Therefore, it is necessary to implement health education actions for the community, developing deworming, control and prevention plans, making adequate use of antiparasitic drugs and reducing environmental contamination, whether in free-living dogs and cats or with owners.