Raissi, Vahid and Masoumi, Mohammad Taqi and Ibrahim, Asmaa and Etemadi, Soudabeh and Getso, Muhammad (2021) Spatial analysis of Toxocara spp. eggs in soil as a potential for serious human infection. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis.
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Toxocara spp. cause one of the most widespread soil-transmitted helminthic infections worldwide. In both developed and developing countries, soil contamination with Toxocara eggs is considered as a major threat to public health. A total of 515 soil samples from 89 sampling sites were collected from different locations of public health such as Wastelands and Streets, public parks, and marginal areas. The soil samples were examined for Toxocara eggs using a centrifugal-floatation technique utilizing a saturated sodium nitrate solution. centralization of positive soil samples in the province was studied by Spatial Statistics Techniques such as Average Nearest Neighbors and Spatial Autocorrelation and Kernel Density Function Toxocara spp. eggs were found in 94 (18.25 %) out of 515 samples collected from the studied areas. According to the results obtained, marginal areas are often contaminated with eggs of Toxocara. Consequently, preventive measures including health education should be implemented to reduce the potential risk of this parasitic infection. Keywords: GIS; Human infection; Iran; Prevalence; Soil; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial statistics; Toxocara eggs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | lorestan university |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2021 05:08 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2021 05:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/2651 |
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