Anti-Toxocara *** in an adult healthy population:serosurvey and risk factors in Southeast Brazil

作     者：Elaine Cristina Negri Vamilton Alvares Santarem Guita Rubinsky-Elefant Rogerio Giuffrida 

作者机构：Pro-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pos-GraduacaoRod.Raposo Tavares km 572Bairro Limoeiro19067-175 Presidente PrudenteSao PauloBrazil Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary MedicineVeterinary Teaching-Hospital-Unoeste-Rod.Raposo Tavares km 572Bairro Linmeiro19067-175 Presidente PrudenteSao Paulo.Brazil Laboratory of Seroepidemiology and Immunobiology-Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo-University of Sao PauloAv Dr Eneas deCarralho Aguiar 47005403-000 Sao PauloSPBrazil Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary MedicineVeterinary Teaching-Hospital-Unoeste-Rod.Raposo Tavares km 572Bairro Linmeiro19067-175Presidente PrudenteSao Paulo.Brazil 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第3卷第3期

页      面：211-216页

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by Universidade do Oeste Paulista (Unoeste)(Grant No.184/2009) 

主　　题：Toxocariasis Larva migrans Seroprevalence Diagnostic Epidemiology 

摘      要：Objective:To evaluate the frequency of anti-Toxocara *** in an adult healthy ***:The study was performed by interviewing 253 blood donors,from 19 to65 years of age,in a hematological centre in Presidente Prudente,S(?)o Paulo,southeast Brazil.A survey was applied to blood donors in order to evaluate the possible factors associated to the presence of antibodies,including individual(gender and age),socioeconomic(scholarship,familial income and sanitary facilities)and habit information(contact with soil,geophagy,onycophagy and intake of raw/undercooked meat)as well as the presence of dogs or cats in the *** test was run for detection of the anti-Toxocara *** *** analysis followed by logistic regression was performed to evaluate the potential risk factors associated to ***:The overall prevalence observed in this study was 8.7%(22/253).Contact with soil was the unique risk factor associated with the presence of antibodies(P=0.0178;0R=3.52;95%CI=1.244-9.995).Conclusions:The results of this study reinforce the necessity in promoting preventive public health measures,even for healthy adult individual,particularly those related to the deworming of pets to avoid the soil contamination,and hygiene education of the population.