Environmental analyses of the parasitic profile found in the sandy soil from the Santos municipality beaches, SP, Brazil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Silvana Rocha, Rosa Maria Ferreiro Pinto, Aline Petrollini Floriano, Lais Helena Teixeira, Bianca Bassili, Araceles Martinez, Sergio Olavo Pinto da Costa, Marcos Montani Caseiro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2011
• Subjects: Larva migrans; Toxocariasis; Sandy soil; Beaches; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; The Beaches
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652011000500007; https://doaj.org/article/32f790ca5ee2473e9e5f0d85c2d960dc

The environmental contamination by geohelminths represents a world public health problem and has been well documented by several authors. However, few papers describe the presence of such contamination in saline soils of coastal beaches. A study was performed on the beaches of the municipality of Sa...