Publications

prevalence of anti-toxocara antibodies in a random sample of inpatients at a children's hospital in vitória, espírito santo, brazil.	in the streets of vitória, in the state of espírito santo, brazil, are large number of stray dogs, many of which are infected with toxocara canis, suggesting a high risk for human infection. in order to investigate the prevalence of toxocara infection in children in espírito santo we studied the prevalence of anti-toxocara antibodies in 100 random inpatients over one year of age, at the children's hospital n.s. da glória, the reference children's hospital for the state. all the sera were collect ...	1998	9876441
prevalence of toxocara-induced liver granulomas, detected by immunohistochemistry, in a series of autopsies at a children's reference hospital in vitoria, es, brazil.	the aim of this investigation was to study the frequency of visceral larva migrans (vlm) granulomas in autopsies at a children's reference hospital in vitoria, es brazil, where anti-toxocara antibodies are frequently detected in the serum of children admitted at the hospital. two liver fragments from 310 autopsies of children aged between 1 and 15 years were paraffin embedded, and sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and submitted to detection of toxocara antigens using a rabbit anti ...	2007	17333262