Presence of anti-Toxocara antibodies in children selected at Hospital Universitário, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-50

  Matos, Maria De Fatima C ^a   Militão, Dina Namico A ^a   Brum, Maria Aparecida R ^a   Omais, Maruãn ^d   Quilião, Maria Eulina ^d   Dorval, Maria Elizabeth C ^a   Pereira, Ângela Da Costa ^a   Possi, Luís Augusto ^a   Sauer, Leandro ^b   Camargo, Eide Dias ^c   Tundisi, Regina Nardini ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Depto de Comp e Estatística   (Brazil)

^c Institulo Adolfo Lutz   (Brazil)

^d Depto de Comp e Estatística ^*

Author keywords

Children; ELISA; Eosinophilia; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CHILD; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; TOXOCARA CANIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL; MALE; PREVALENCE; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 0030621959     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46651997000100010     Document Type: Article

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