Infecção por Enterobius vermicularis em populações agro-pastoris pré-colombianas de San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Enterobius vermicularis infection in pre-Columbian population from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

• Main Authors: Luiz Fernando Ferreira, Adauto Araujo, Ulisses Confalonieri, Lautaro Nuñez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1989-01-01
• Series: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
• Subjects: Coprolites; peloparasitology; Enterobius vermicularis; paleopathology
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761989000800037

<abstract language="eng">Enterobius vermicularis eggs were found in human coprolites collected from the archaeological site of San Pedro de Atacama, North of Chile, in occupational layers dated from 1,000 BC. Agricultures and herding were begining at this period of time in this region of South America. The paleoparasitological data amplifies the knowledge about the distribution of human oxyuriasis in Pre-Columbian America.