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Environmental conditions and rodent infestation in Campo Limpo district, Sao Paulo municipality, Brazil
Fecha
2009Registro en:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH, v.19, n.1, p.1-16, 2009
0960-3123
10.1080/09603120802126670
Autor
MASI, Eduardo de
VILACA, Pedro
RAZZOLINI, Maria Tereza Pepe
Institución
Resumen
Rodents are involved in the transmission to human beings of several diseases, including liptospirosis, which shows high lethality rates in Sao Paulo municipality. Despite this, few studies have assessed the relationship existing between urban environmental conditions and building rodent infestation. With the purpose of clarifying this relationship, an analysis has been conducted in order to quantify the influence of environmental factors upon rodent infestation on a low-income district. Diagnosis of the environmental situation has been performed to evaluate the frequency according to which harborage, food and access sources occur, and a survey on infestation rates in 2175 dwellings in the area studied. The logistic regression analysis showed that among the environmental variables, the one that showed the closest association with rodent infestation was access; followed by harborage, and food. It was concluded that poor socioeconomic and environmental conditions in the area propitiate the occurrence of high rodent infestation rates.