Anti-Toxocara antibodies detected in children attending elementary school in Vitoria, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil: Prevalence and associated factors;Anticorpos anti-Toxocara em crianças admitidas na escola fundamental em Vitória, Estado do Espírito Santo: Prevalência e fatores associados

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-466

  Fragoso, Roberta Paranhos ^a   Monteiro, Mariza Buriche Macedo ^a   Lemos, Elenice Moreira ^a   Pereira, Fausto Edmundo Lima ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Toxocara canis; Toxocara infection; Toxocariasis; Visceral larva migrans

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; TOXOCORA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FILTER REACTOR; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONYCOPHAGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BRAZIL; CHILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; VERMES;

EID: 81455128910     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822011000400012     Document Type: Article

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