As hortaliças estão ocupando cada vez mais espaço nas refeições dos brasileiros. Entretanto, esses alimentos, quando contaminados pelo meio ambiente ou processo de manipulação, favorecem a cadeia transmissão parasitoses intestinais. Na Amazônia, cidade Santarém ocupa o 3º pior lugar no ranking saneamento básico do país. Dessa forma, esse trabalho propõe-se investigar quais os tipos comuns enter...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasitoses in Native Brazilian children from 2 to 9 years old. METHODS A search for ova and parasites was conducted in the stools of children between 2 to 9 years old living in six indigenous villages located in the Middle and Lower Xingu River, to wit: Pavuru, Moygu, Tuiararé, Diauarum, Capivara, and Ngojwere. The study utilized the Parates...

BACKGROUND The Atlixco municipality, Puebla State, at a mean altitude of 1840 m, was selected for a study of Fasciola hepatica infection in schoolchildren in Mexico. This area presents permanent water collections continuously receiving thaw water from Popocatepetl volcano (5426 m altitude) through the community supply channels, conforming an epidemiological scenario similar to those known in hy...

The life of the long-established Russian inhabitants Western Siberia has been well described. In fact, archaeological, ethnographic, and other information on its various aspects is abundant. Archaeoparasitological data, hand, lacking, particularly with regard to parasitosis incidence. present study, eggs such fish parasites as Opisthorchis felineus Diphyllobothrium spp. were identified in soil ...