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Abstract: The minor ailments service is a pharmaceutical service that takes place in the community pharmacies of Costa Rica. The objective in this article is to development a minor ailments procedure on preventive chemotherapy in people with intestinal parasitosis, mainly, soil-transmitted helminth infections. It is focused on pharmacists from community pharmacies of Costa Rica that promote the effectiveness and safety use of antiparasitic agents. To make this objective, the literature was reviewed from 2005 until 2021. The search strategy consisted of a review of pre-filtered sources of evidence in intestinal parasitosis, pharmaceutical care and minor ailments guidelines, infectious disease books, databases of scientific evidence and drug databases. The information collected allowed the elaboration of the procedure of minor ailments service in people with intestinal parasitosis based on the guidelines of massive chemotherapy recommendations for the control of soil-transmitted helminth infections of the Pan American Health Organization. This procedure aims to be a useful strategy for the Costa Rican pharmacists that contributes with this pharmaceutical service and the rational use of antiparasitic agents. In conclusion, the community pharmacy, as a primary health care center, must have standard operating procedures, highlighting the preventive chemotherapy and this procedure is a relevant contribution.
Key words: pharmacies, antiparasitic agents, pharmaceutical services. Source:DeCS/BIREME.