Parasitoses intestinais: ocorrência em crianças no Brasil Intestinal parasites: occurrence in children in Brasil

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to conduct research on the occurrence of intestinal parasitosis in children in Brazil. The study was a bibliographic review, the search for papers related made in the database on the electronic pages of Capes, Scielo, Google Acadêmico and Pubmed. 20 scientific articles were selected to compose this research. The results obtained showed that the regions with the highest occurrence were the northeastern region and that the species Giardia lamblia was the most prevalent among the species found in the studies. We can conclude with this work that the occurrence of intestinal parasites in children still shows high rates of positivity and that environmental and socioeconomic conditions are the main responsible for this problem.