Hubungan Ukuran Tubuh dan Kejadian Kecacingan Gnathostoma spinigerum pada Belut Sawah (Monopterus albus).

Abstract

Gnathostomiasis is a zoonotic disease that attacks the lungs, the eyes , and the nervous systems, thus causing blindness, paralysis even death. If one consumes swamp eels infected by L3 Gnathostoma spinigerum worm and yet not perfectly cooked, he undoubtedly will suffer from Gnathostomiasis. The purpose of this research is to know the correlation between the body size of an eel and the infection of Gnathostoma spinigerum worm developing in the eel, so that eel-consumers will be cautious about eel-eating and Gnasthostmiasis disease. 124 eel samples were weighed and measured, their visceral organs were taken and cleaned with aquades and analyzed with pressured method . All worm larvas discovered in the eel organs were cleaned Ana kept in ethanol of 70%. Then the worm larvas were indentified morphologically using microscope to observe the existence of Gnathostoma spinigerum worm. All collected data were then analyzed using spearman corelation analysis, and by this, three correlation values were obtained; weight (r = 0.446; p<0.05), length (r =0.427; p<0.05), and diameter (r =0.397; p<0.05). Of the three body size parameters observed, it revealed that they all have positive correlation with gnathostmiasis. This proved that the infection of L3 Gnathostoma spinigerum did not inhibit the growth of the swamp eels (Monopterus albus).