| occurrence of giardia lamblia in children of municipal day-care centers from botucatu, são paulo state, brazil. | considering that the number of day-care centers for pre-school-age children has expanded rapidly in developing countries, and that these institutions presenting conditions that facilitate the transmission of many enteric agents, a parasitological survey was carried out in three municipal day-cares from botucatu: two in the urban area (one in downtown area and the other one in the city periphery area) and the third in the rural area. three separate stool specimens were collected from 147 children ... | 1995 | 8731262 |
| enteroparasitic occurrence in fecal samples analyzed at the university of western são paulo-unoeste clinical laboratory, presidente prudente, são paulo state, brazil. | this study aims to analyze the enteroparasitic occurrence in children from 0 to 12 years old consulted at the university of western sao paulo clinical laboratory, presidente prudente, sp, brazil, in relation to the socioeconomic profile of the attended children. stool samples were examined and a questionnaire was applied with the objective of knowing the patient's age, sex, medical attendance, characteristic of the habitation, provisioning of water, dejection and domestic waste fates, use of foo ... | 2004 | 15517025 |
| relationship between intestinal parasitic infection in children and soil contamination in an urban slum. | urban slums are well known for their high infant mortality and morbidity rates, and parasitic infections seem to be a common problem among these children. the aim of the present study was to determine protozoa and nematodes prevalence among children of a selected community located in são paulo, brazil, and access the relation between soil and children infection. | 2009 | 18499735 |
| frequency of blastocystis hominis and other intestinal parasites in stool samples examined at the parasitology laboratory of the school of pharmaceutical sciences at the são paulo state university, araraquara. | blastocystis homins is a protozoan that causes an intestinal infection known as human blastocystosis. this infection is diagnosed by means of parasitological examination of stools and by permanent staining techniques. the present study was developed to evaluate the frequency of blastocystis hominis infection among inhabitants of the araraquara region, state of são paulo, and to compare different methods for investigating this protozoan in feces samples. evaluations on 503 stool samples were perf ... | 2008 | 19142433 |
| classic and molecular study of giardia duodenalis in children from a daycare center in the region of presidente prudente, são paulo, brazil. | epidemiological studies on giardiasis by using molecular techniques such as rapd (randomly amplified polymorphic dna) may give information on factors related to the transmission of giardia duodenalis. the aim of this work was to assess the epidemiology of g. duodenalis in 101 children attended at a daycare center in presidente bernardes, sp, brazil. after parasitological examinations in feces samples, 15 children presented cysts of g. duodenalis. their respective parents, brothers and pets, besi ... | 2009 | 19229386 |
| prevalence of intestinal parasitoses in children at the xingu indian reservation. | to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal parasitoses in native brazilian children from 2 to 9 years old. | 2010 | 21069250 |
| enteric parasites in hiv-1/aids-infected patients from a northwestern são paulo reference unit in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era. | we describe the epidemiology of intestinal parasites in patients from an aids reference service in northeastern são paulo, brazil. | 2011 | 22094707 |