High occurrence of giardiasis in children living on a 'landless farm workers' settlement in Araras, São Paulo, Brazil Alta ocorrência de giardíase em crianças do Assentamento Sem Terra, Araras, São Paulo, Brasil

• Main Authors: Oswaldo Aparecido de Lima Junior, Juliana Kaiser, Rosana Catisti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2013
• Subjects: 'Landless farm workers' settlement; Giardiasis; Giardia intestinalis; Parasitic infections; Public health; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Alta; Arctic; Elevado
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f41f369af9964693bba59df7b73b30cb

Enteric parasitosis remains an important public health problem in many areas around the world including in Brazil, and it is frequently associated with poverty and lack of sanitation facilities. Research carried out over the course of a year revealed that 96.6% (28/29) of children randomly selected...