Prevalence Of Intestinal Parasites On Fruits Available In Post – Ofifce Ilorin, Kwara – State, Nigeria

Ethnic eating habits, poverty, tourism to exotic areas and environmental regradation have lead to emergence of food borne parasitic infection (Arora and Arora 2008).

It has been estimated that human harbors about 300 species of parasites worms and areas. To species of protozoa some of these parasites may have been required from field especially raw fruits, water and animals. Common food borne parasites include three, types of worms (uzotodes tremeadodesand neonelodes and several protozoa (Zoyle, 2003).

Facilities in these developing country like Nigeria to improve the parasite potential effect on public and healthcare issue to economic. Consequences of peoples productivity and agricultural loss are not readily available. Therefore the general objectives of this work is to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites on some fruits at post – office of Ilorin.

LITERATURE REVIEW

- Abera et al (2010) Ereplorethe prevalence of intestinal parasites in food handlers of Ethiopia. One hundred and fifty eight  (41.1%) food handlers had intestinal parasites of these, 25 (6.5%) were suffering from diarrhea. In his studies h found nine species of intestinal parasites, of parasites recovered two protozoa (E. histilytical 12.76% and G. Lanblia 7.0%) and seven helminthes (A. lumbricoides, 11.7%, hook work, 80%, S. Stercoralis; 2.86% S. Mansoni, 1.8%, Taenia species, 1.3%, H, Nana, 0.5% and T. trodera, 0.5%) were detected. 

- Nyarango et al (2007) examined 168 stool samples and 84 vegetables and in Kisi region of Kenya. He found 65.5% of vegetables and 41.1% of tool samples were positive for intestinal parasites. Ascaris lambricoides and Entamoeba were most prevalent parasites in the region that were infecting the food stuff and the food handlers were giardia lanblia (2.61) and entamoeba histolytical (0.66%). More types of helminth were found in this study among other severe strongly loudest sites corelis, Trichuris trichuris and Asaris lonbricoides were predominant.

- Soares and Corner (2004) conducted study on lettuce, water cresu and arugula in florian no polis, Brazil. They found all vegetables were highly contaminated with parasites water cresu was most contaminated vegetable (70.4%) followed by lettuce (60%) and rocket (58%) parasites recovered from the study were mainly protozoa, Entamoeba spp. (76%) followed by Blastocystis (20%), Endolimax and biardia spp were T4% and 12.4% respectively. Daryani et al (2008) reported that consumption of raw vegetables is a major way in the transmission of parasites contaminations. They carried out a study in iron to determine parasitological contamination of vegetable in market gardens. They collected 96 vegetables from markets and 55 from graders, comprising a total of 141. The results showed that 50% of market and 71% of garden vegetables were contaminated with parasites.