Table 1.
Description of articles published from 2008 to 2014 that satisfied the search criteria
| Article | Region | State | n | Total positives | Seroprevalence (%) | Main studied characteristics | Statistical evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marchioro and others, 201424 | Southeast | Paraná | 544 | 136 | 25.0 | 1–12 years; Toxoplasma gondii; contact with dogs; contact with cats; eosinophilia; playing in the sand | Bivariate analysis; multiple logistic regression |
| Cassenote and others, 201425 | Southeast | São Paulo | 252 | 39 | 15.5 | 1–12 years; sociodemographic characteristics; geophagy; onychophagia; hand washing habits; eosinophilia; intestinal parasites | Poisson multiple regression |
| Fialho and Corrêa, 201410 | Southeast | São Paulo | 116 | 63 | 54.3 | 2–14 years; asthma; eosinophilia; height; weight; BMI | Descriptive analysis; Wilcoxon test for two samples |
| Negri and others, 201326 | Southeast | São Paulo | 253 | 22 | 8.7 | 19–65 years (blood donor); education; income; house location; dog; cat; garden; contact with soil; geophagy; onychophagia; raw meat consumption | Bivariate analysis; logistic regression |
| Guilherme and others, 201327 | Southeast | Paraná | 167 | 7 | 4.2 | 1–15 years; eosinophilia; allergies; rhinitis; asthma; bronchitis; domestic dog; domestic cat | Comparison of frequencies; ratio between the outer diameter of the sample and the optical density of the cutoff value |
| Schoenardie and others, 201328 | Southeast | Rio Grande do Sul | 427 | 216 | 50.6 | 1–12 years | chi-square test; Mantel–Haenszel test; ORs |
| Prestes-Carneiro and others, 201329 | Southeast | São Paulo | 194 | 28 | 14.4 | 5–73 years; contact with dogs and cats; education; family income; eosinophilia; anemia; T. gondii; Taenia solium metacestode | Chi-square test; Fisher's exact test; regression coefficients |
| Manini and others, 201230 | Southeast | Paraná | 90 | 16 | 17.8 | 1–12 years; asthma; bronchitis; skin allergies; eosinophilia | Mean and standard deviation; relative and absolute frequencies; Fisher's exact test |
| Mattia and others, 201231 | Southeast | Paraná | 353 | 130 | 36.8 | 0–12 years; recurrent wheezing; headache; fever; abdominal pain; eosinophilia; contact with dogs; contact with cats; geophagy; onychophagia | Bivariate analysis; logistic regression |
| Fragoso and others, 201132 | Southeast | Espírito Santo | 391 | 202 | 51.6 | 7 years; parasitological; eosinophilia; asthma history; skin allergy history; sociodemographic variables | Frequencies; 95% CIs |
| Marchioro and others, 201133 | Southeast | Paraná | 1,199 | 386 | 32.2 | 7 months to 12 years; eosinophilia | Descriptive analysis; chi-square test |
| Santarém and others, 201134 | Southeast | São Paulo | 126 + 126 Total = 252 | 12 + 16 Total = 28 | 9.5 + 12.7 Accumulated = 11.1 | 10 months to 15 years; eosinophilia; dog at home; domestic cat; onychophagia; social class (two-class comparison) | Mann–Whitney test; chi-square test or Fisher's exact test; multivariate logistic regression; ORs; 95% CIs |
| Correa and Bismarck, 201035 | Southeast | São Paulo | 100 | 28 | 28.0 | 6–14 years; toxocariasis incidence | Calculation of incidence and prevalence |
| Colli and others, 201036 | Southeast | Paraná | 376 | 194 | 51.6 | 1–12 years; eosinophilia; abdominal pain; headache; recurrent wheezing; parasitological (parasites not found); onychophagia; geophagy | Multiple logistic regression |
| Prestes-Carneiro and others, 200937 | Southeast | São Paulo | 182 | 25 | 13.7 | 4–84 years (≤ 15 vs. ≥ 15 years); risk factor (dog breeding, cat breeding, health conditions, level of education, clinical symptoms); anemia; leucopenia; neutropenia; lymphocytosis; monocytosis; eosinophilia | t-test for independent samples; chi-square test; Fisher's exact test; correlation; coefficient test; ORs; multiple logistic regression |
| Prestes-Carneiro and others, 200838 | Southeast | São Paulo | 79 | 17 | 21.5 | ≤ 15 vs. ≥ 15 years; eosinophilia; education; helminths; house with dogs and cats; anemia; health conditions; family income | t-test for independent samples; chi-square test; Fisher's exact test; correlation coefficients (r) |
| Mendonça and others, 201339 | Northeast | Bahia | 1,309 | 633 | 48.4 | 4–11 years; maternal education; going to school; paved street; domestic dog; domestic cat | Univariate analysis; multivariate logistic regression; ORs; 95% CIs |
| Mendonça and others, 201240 | Northeast | Bahia | 1,148 | 540 | 47.0 | 4–11 years (1.445); wheezing; allergies; parasitological findings; eosinophilia | Univariate analysis; multivariate logistic regression |
| Souza and others, 201141 | Northeast | Bahia | 150 + 188 | 78 + 123 | 52.0 + 65.4 | ≤ 15 vs. ≥ 15 years; comparison of two population groups; contact with dogs; contact with cats; social class | Chi-square test; univariate and multivariate logistic regression |
| Dattoli and others, 201142 | Northeast | Bahia | 268 | 124 | 46.3 | 31–40 years (blood donor); eosinophilia; intestinal helminths (not found in samples); education | Univariate analysis; multivariate logistic regression; ORs; 95% CIs |
| Oliart-Guzmán and others, 201443 | North | Amazonas | 182 + 357 | 41 + 65 | 28.0 + 23.3 | 6 months to 59 months; socioeconomic status and demographic variables; wheezing; asthma; helminths; domestic dog; domestic cat | Variance analysis; chi-square test or Fisher's exact test |
| Rubinsky-Elefant and others, 200844 | North | Amazonas | 403 | 108 | 26.8 | 5–90 years; education of the family provider; presence of dogs; presence of cats; sector of residence; index of wealth; intestinal parasites | Prevalence rate; 95% CIs; chi-square test; Fisher's exact test; Mann–Whitney test; ORs; logistic regression |
BMI = body mass index; CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.