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Coprological assessment of domestic carnivores in public areas and health education focused on larva migrans in São Paulo State, Brazil [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) and visceral larva migrans (VLM) are neglected zoonoses caused by Ancylostoma spp. and Toxocara spp. Although investigations have been conducted in some areas of São Paulo State, Brazil, the presence of these helminth eggs ...
Abraão Isaque da Silva, Adrieli Leite Araujo Moura, Beatriz Maia Galetti, Bruna Larocca Vieira, Camila Vitória Dias da Silva, Giovana Almeida Reis, Letícia Leite De Brito, Letícia Santos Goes, Luciana de Almeida Menezes, Matheus Porto Cortezi, Mayara Paula Paglione, Vanessa Kelen Nunes, Vitória Maximiana Soares dos Santos, Yasmin Saliba Maluf, Clara Morato Dias, Patricia Parreira Perin, Estevam Guilherme Lux Hoppe, Adolorata Aparecida Bianco Carvalho   +17 more
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Hepatic visceral larva migrans: A radiological case report [PDF]

Radiology Case Reports
Visceral larva migrans (VLM) occurs due to migration of the second stage of larvae of nematodes through human viscera. It is an underdiagnosed entity which commonly affects the liver as eosinophilic abscesses and appears as coalescing, conglomerated ...
Aniket Kashyap, MBBS, Pranjali Joshi, MD, PDCC, Gaurav Raj, MD, Shamrendra Narayan, MD, Piyush Upadhyay, MD, DM, Nuzhat Hussain, MD   +5 more
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IgE is a marker for visceral larva migrans

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014
Dear Sir, Arora et al.[1] in their article titled “ophthalmic complications, including retinal detachment in hyperimmunoglobulinemia E (Job’s) syndrome: Case report and review of literature “have described a pediatric case. In a pediatric case report, source of history or “informer” should be mentioned. The informer (parents, grandparents, relatives,
N Venugopal, Sherin, Sriram Gopal
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Larva migrans visceral: relato de caso [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2003
Larva migrans visceral é doença infecciosa, adquirida por ingestão de ovos provenientes dos vermes Toxocara canis e/ou Toxocara cati que infestam cães e gatos; as larvas penetram a parede intestinal e migram através dos tecidos levando a alterações ...
Alexandre Bortoli Machado, Marice Emanuela El Achkar   +1 more
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Prevalence of Zoonotic Gastrointestinal Helminths Among Pet Dogs in Western Chitwan, Nepal. [PDF]

J Parasitol Res
Gastrointestinal helminth parasites (GIHPs) in dogs, belonging to the phyla Platyhelminthes and Nemathelminths, pose a zoonotic threat by contaminating human environments with cysts, oocysts, and eggs. Investigating GIHPs in domesticated dogs in close contact with humans is crucial to understanding zoonotic transmission.
B K S, Adhikari S, Regmi S, Pathak CR.
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Prolonged Fever in Children: An Inpatient Diagnostic Framework for Infections in Australia. [PDF]

J Paediatr Child Health
ABSTRACT There are many causes of fever in children, ranging from common and self‐limiting to serious and life threatening. Careful assessment of children with prolonged fever without an obvious or identified source requires detailed history and examination with consideration of infections unique to the specific geographical region and individual ...
Rupasinghe H, Nourse C, Robson J, Berkhout A.   +3 more
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Electrochemical detection of Toxocara canis excretory-secretory antigens in children from rural communities in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador: association between active infection and high eosinophilia. [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of active Toxocara canis infections in humans is challenging. Larval stages of T. canis do not replicate in human tissues and disease may result from infection with a single T. canis larva.
Chico, M, Cooper, P, De Wael, K, Morales-Yánez, F, Muyldermans, S, Paredis, L, Polman, K, Roucher, C, Sariego, I, Trashin, S   +9 more
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Hepatic visceral larva migrans [PDF]

BMJ Case Reports, 2013
Visceral larva migrans (VLM) is a systemic manifestation of migration of second stage larvae of nematodes through the tissue of human viscera. It is not uncommon but is underdiagnosed in developing countries. The liver is the most common organ to be involved due to its portal venous blood supply. The imaging findings are subtle and differentiation from
Seema, Rohilla, Nitin, Jain, Rohtas, Yadav, Dhara Ballabh, Dhaulakhandi   +3 more
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Nematode larva migrans caused by Toxocara cati in the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020
Sporadic cases of visceral and neural nematode larva migrans have been diagnosed at necropsy in the endangered New Zealand kiwi (Apteryx spp.), but the causative organisms have not yet been definitively identified.
Adrienne F. French, Fernanda Castillo-Alcala, Kristene R. Gedye, Wendi D. Roe, Brett D. Gartrell   +4 more
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Seroprevalence of toxocariasis in children aged 1-9 years in western Islamic Republic of Iran, 2003 [PDF]

, 2007
We determined the seroprevalence of Toxocara canis infection in 544 children under 10 years randomly selected from urban and rural areas of Hamadan, An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used for detection of antibodies to T.
Azimi, A., Fallah, M., Taherkhani, H.
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