Environmental contamination by Toxocara spp. Eggs in a rural settlement in Brazil Contaminação ambiental por ovos de Toxocara spp. em assentamento rural no Brasil

In order to study the environmental contamination by Toxocara spp. eggs in a rural community from the Pontal do Paranapanema region, São Paulo State, Brazil, soil samples from 31 out of 121 plots were collected in eight different places on each house. The samples were submitted to flotation techniqu...

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Main Authors: Vamilton Alvares Santarém, Elisabeth da Cunha Franco, Fernanda Torres Kozuki, Danila Fini, Luiz Euribel Prestes-Carneiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2008-10-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652008000500006