Presence of Toxocara spp eggs in public squares of Uberlândia city, Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Costa-Cruz, Julia Maria
• Data de Publicação: 1994
• Outros Autores: Nunes, Raquel Souza, Buso, Abadia Gilda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rimtsp/article/view/29119
• topic: Toxocara spp; Contaminação do solo

The objective of this study was to verify the presence of Toxocara spp eggs in the public squares ground in Uberlândia, region of Triângulo Mineiro, from October 1991 to January 1992. The city has 89 squares distributed in 39 boroughs. In order to have an outline of the parasite's occurrence, ground and sand (when existent) samples were collected from one square per boroughors. The squares were determined by draw. The homogenized ground samples of distinct points of the 39 squares, were colected in plastic flasks and analysed by the methods of fluctuation in sodium chloride saturated solution and magnesium sulphate saturated solution which contained 5% of potassium iodate. Both methods were executed twice for each sample. The results showed that the ground of 9 squares (23.07%) was contaminated, 6 of which were located near downtown. The execution of more than one laboratorial method permited the agent's identification in a grater percentage of squares.