Calodium hepaticum: household clustering transmission and the finding of a source of human spurious infection in a community of the Amazon region.

• Main Authors: Alessandra Queiroga Gonçalves (Author), Carlos Ascaso (Author), Ivanildes Santos (Author), Paula Taquita Serra (Author), Genimar Rebouças Julião (Author), Patricia Puccinelli Orlandi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Calodium hepaticum (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a worldwide helminth parasite of which several aspects of transmission still remain unclear. In the Amazon region, the mechanism of transmission based on the ingestion of eggs present in the liver of wild mammals has been suggested as the...