Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection in five farms in Holambra, São Paulo, Brazil Prevalência de enteroparasitoses em cinco fazendas de Holambra-SP, Brasil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Jun Kobayashi, Hideo Hasegawa, Archimedes A. Forli, Nancy F. Nishimura, Ademar Yamanaka, Tetsu Shimabukuro, Yoshiya Sato
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1995
• Subjects: Parasitic infection; Epidemiology; Prevalence; Brazil; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Elevado
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651995000100003; https://doaj.org/article/931dd36b48784f3596b2d11631286b11

A parasitological survey was carried out on 222 inhabitants of five farms in Holambra, located 30 km north of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, on October 1992. Approximately 70% of the inhabitants were found to be infected with at least one species of intestinal parasite. The positive rates of 6 helmint...