“…This prevalence levels have been reported in several previous studies in Brazil (Oliveira-Arbex et al, 2017;Ramos et al;2020;Silva et al, 2020;Lima et al, 2021;Souza et al, 2023;Ugalde et al, 2023) and other countries, such as Mexico (Torres-Chablé et al, 2015), Algeria (Ziam et al, 2022), Nepal (Sukupayo & Tamang, 2023), Morocco (Idrissi et al, 2022) and Ecuador (Calvopina et al, 2023). Since most of the dogs investigated are adults, this data aligns with the literature, as infections by hookworms are the most common in adult dogs (over one year old) (Ferreira et al, 2016;Lima et al, 2021;Souza et al, 2023), and Toxocara sp. is a parasite more often found infecting puppies, although the infection can occur at any age (Villeneuve et al, 2015;Souza et al, 2023).…”