Publications by authors named "Amalia Veronica Mendes da Silva"
FIRST CASE OF HUMAN INFECTION BY Bertiella studeri (Blanchard, 1891) Stunkard,1940 (Cestoda; Anoplocephalidae) IN BRAZIL.
Valeriana Valadares Lopes Hudson Andrade dos Santos Amália Verônica Mendes da Silva Gilberto Fontes Gabriela Lisboa Vieira Eduardo Sergio da Silva
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo
April 2016
Cestodes of the Bertiella genus are parasites of non-human primates found in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Species Bertiella studeri and Bertiella mucronata could, accidentally, infect human beings. The infection occurs from ingestion of mites from the Oribatida order containing cysticercoid larvae of the parasite.
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