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This study was conducted to identify the zoonotic gastrointestinal parasites present in household dogs and evaluate the prevalence of zoonotic gastrointestinal parasites in household dogs within the city. 383 fresh fecal samples were collected from household dogs in Cabanatuan City. Sheather's Sugar Floatation Technique, a quantitative floatation technique was used for the processing of fecal samples. Microscopic examination is done thereafter, using a compound microscope. Parasite eggs seen were identified based on their morphological characteristics (shapes and sizes) as described by Beugnet et al. (2018) upon examination under Low Power Objective (10x magnification) and High Power Objective (20x magnification). The evaluation of the prevalence of zoonotic gastrointestinal parasites were computed using the prevalence formula given by the statistician. Five parasite eggs were identified namely the Toxocara canis (26.63%), Ancylostoma caninum (45.43%), Trichuris vulpis (36.55%), Dipylidium caninum (4.43%) and Capillaria sp. (0.26%). Ancylostoma caninum has the highest prevalence while Capillaria sp. has the least among the 5 identified zoonotic parasites in the City.

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