Screening of Zoonotic Parasites in Playground Sandboxes of Public Parks from Subtropical Mexico

The pathological agents Toxoplasma gondii, Ancylostoma caninum, and Toxocara canis are widely distributed zoonotic parasites with high prevalence in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The aim of the present study was to determine the presence of DNA from these parasites in sand samples f...

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Main Authors: Gonzalo A. Pacheco-Ortega, José I. Chan-Pérez, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco, Eugenia Guzmán-Marín, Melissa Edwards, Mark A. Brown, Matilde Jiménez-Coello, Ivonne B. Hernández-Cortazar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Parasitology Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7409076