Publications

an epidemiological study of gastrointestinal parasites of dogs from southern greater buenos aires (argentina): age, gender, breed, mixed infections, and seasonal and spatial patterns.	a total of 2193 fecal samples from owned dogs were collected during the 2003-2004 period in southern greater buenos aires, and were evaluated for the presence of intestinal parasites by a flotation-centrifugation method. the overall prevalence was 52.4%, and the 11 species found were: ancylostoma caninum (13%), isospora ohioensis complex (12%), toxocara canis (11%), trichuris vulpis (10%), sarcocystis sp. (10%), giardia duodenalis (9%), isospora canis (3%), hammondia-neospora complex (3%), dipil ...	2006	16364551
prevalence of toxocara cati and other parasites in cats' faeces collected from the open spaces of public institutions: buenos aires, argentina.	toxocarosis is a worldwide parasitic infection that affects both cats and dogs. toxocara cati (schrank, 1788) syn. toxocara mystax (zeder, 1800) prevalence was studied in faeces from stray cats collected from the open spaces of public institutions of buenos aires city, both building and surrounding open spaces are fenced off. of the 465 samples obtained from march to june of 2005, 58.3% were found to have parasite eggs. the following parasites were identified from the 271 positive samples: t. ca ...	2006	16647819