Abstract High prevalence of Ascaris infection among young children led to develop many studies in different countries and its impact over their nutritional condition. However, a few of them had described the number of hospitalized children with intestinal parasitic infection in different place. These data prompted us to investigate the prevalence of hospitalized children with enteroparasitosis in three hospitals at Guarapuava city, associating degree of infection, age, sex and nutritional conditions. The nutritional state of the children was evaluated by […]
