High occurrence of Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) spurious infection in a village in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil

High occurrence of Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) spurious infection in a village in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil

Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a nematode of the Capillariidae family that infects rodents and other mammals. In Brazil, human spurious infections of C. hepaticum have been detected in indigenous or rural communities from the Amazon Basin, but not in the southern states of the coun...

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Main Authors: Débora do Rocio Klisiowicz, Larissa Reifur, Márcia Kiyoe Shimada, Juciliane Haidamak, Regielly Caroline Raimundo Cognialli, Tatiane Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2014-06-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
Calodium hepaticum
Capillaria hepatica
human spurious infection
Brazil
Paraná
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762014000300371&lng=en&tlng=en

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