title: [Children day care center: exposition or protection environment to intestinal parasites infestation in Aracaju, SE].
abstract: The work aimed to evaluate whether child daycare centers are an environment that protects against or exposes children to intestinal parasite infestation. Stool samples were analyzed from children attending such centers and a control group. It was concluded that attending daycare centers is related to intestinal parasitosis (630% vs. 41.4 %; p <0.01) and the risk of infestation is 1.5 times higher.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, SE, Brazil. ricardoqg@infonet.com.br
authors.forename: Ricardo Queiroz
authors.initials: RQ
authors.lastname: Gurgel
authors.forename: Gileno de Sá
authors.initials: Gde S
authors.lastname: Cardoso
authors.forename: Angela Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Lucio Novais dos
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Rosana Cristina Veiga de
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors