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The frequency of Toxocara infection in mental retarded children [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2004
Human toxocariasis is commonly seen in places where stray and Toxocara canis-infected dog population is high. There is a strong correlation between frequency of Toxocara infection, life style, and infection risk.
Mustafa Kaplan, Ahmet Kalkan, Salih Hosoglu, Salih Kuk, Mehmet Özden, Kutbedtin Demirdag, Aykut Ozdarendeli   +6 more
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Toxocara infection in psychiatric inpatients: a case control seroprevalence study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: There is poor knowledge about the epidemiology of toxocariasis in psychiatric patients. AIMS: Determine the seroepidemiology of Toxocara infection in psychiatric patients.
Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel
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Spinal Cord Sarcoidosis Treated With Infliximab. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Isolated spinal cord lesion could be misinterpreted as a demyelinating disease. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis should be in the differential when other indices for a demyelinating disorder are absent. An inadequate response to intravenous steroid therapy should not rule out spinal sarcoidosis as this report confirms the response to intravenous ...
Moussa H, Rizk RH, Shabb NS, El Ayoubi N, Sawaya R.   +4 more
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Toxocara seropositivity, atopy and wheezing in children living in poor neighbourhoods in urban Latin American. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Toxocara canis and T. cati are parasites of dogs and cats, respectively, that infect humans and cause human toxocariasis. Infection may cause asthma-like symptoms but is often asymptomatic and is associated with a marked eosinophilia ...
Cruz, Álvaro Augusto, Pontes-de-Carvalho, Lain Carlos, Cruz Álvaro Augusto, Rodrigues, LC, Santos, J, Rosemeire Fiaccone, Dattoli Vitor Camilo Cavalcante, Fiaccone, Rosemeire Leovigildo, Pontes-de-Carvalho Lain Carlos, Rodrigues Laura Cunha, Barreto Maurício Lima, Figueiredo, CA, Barreto, Maurício Lima, Mendonça, Lívia Ribeiro, Philip John Cooper, Lívia Ribeiro Mendonça, Figueiredo Camila Alexandrina, Figueiredo, Camila Alexandrina, Pontes-de-Carvalho, LC, Fiaccone, R, Rafael Valente Veiga, Alcantara-Neves Neuza Maria, Alcantara-Neves, NM, Veiga, Rafael Valente, Cooper, PJ, Cooper, Philip, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Dattoli, Vitor Camilo Cavalcante, Fiaccone, Rosemeire, Dattoli, VC, Jackson Santos, Cooper Philip John, Lain Carlos Pontes-de-Carvalho, Santos Jackson, Alcantara-Neves, Neuza Maria, Mendonça Lívia Ribeiro, Santos, Jackson, Cooper, Philip John, Neves, Neuza Maria Alcântara, Veiga Rafael Valente, Camila Alexandrina Figueiredo, Cruz, ÁA, Barreto, ML, Figueiredo, Camila Alexandrina Viana, Vitor Camilo Cavalcante Dattoli, Neuza Maria Alcantara-Neves, Fiaccone Rosemeire, Álvaro Augusto Cruz, Maurício Lima Barreto, Veiga, RV, Rodrigues, Laura Cunha, Mendonça, LR, Cruz Filho, Alvaro Augusto Souza da   +52 more
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Global prevalence of Toxocara infection in cats

, 2020
Zoonotic parasites, including Toxocara species, of pet and stray cats are of public health importance. Justification for, and the design and implementation of prevention and control of human toxocariasis may benefit from an understanding of the zoonotic ...
Ebrahimi, M, Hofmann, A, Robin B. Gasser, Calum N.L. Macpherson, Fakhri, Y, Hotez, PJ, Ali Rostami, Rostami, A, Peter J. Hotez, Guangxu Ma, Sepidarkish, M, Tao Wang, Mirjalali, H, Maryam Ebrahimi, Andreas Hofmann, Ma, G, Hamed Mirjalali, Mahdi Sepidarkish, Yadolah Fakhri, Wang, T, Macpherson, CNL, Gasser, RB   +21 more
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Exposure to Multiple Parasites Is Associated with the Prevalence of Active Convulsive Epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Epilepsy is common in developing countries, and it is often associated with parasitic infections. We investigated the relationship between exposure to parasitic infections, particularly multiple infections and active convulsive epilepsy (ACE),
Honorati Masanja, Peter Odermatt, Lowe, Brett, Osier, Faith H. A., Ryan G. Wagner, Seth Owusu-Agyei (80063), Kamuyu, Gathoni, Wilkins, Patricia P, Lowe, Brett,, James Mageto, John C. Noh (569698), Christian Bottomley, Charles R Newton, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige (569702), Wilkins, PP, Kamuyu, G, Study of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Sites (SEEDS) group, Owusu-Agyei, S, Faith H A Osier, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Noh, John C., Kenneth Ae-Ngibise, Rachael Odhiambo (569700), Faith H. A. Osier, Wagner, Ryan G, Anthony K. Ngugi, Ngugi, Anthony K., Wilkins, Patricia P., Gathoni Kamuyu, Ryan G Wagner, Brett Lowe (40510), Honorati Masanja (102691), Nutman, TB, Gathoni Kamuyu (380199), Peter Odermatt (148926), Osier, Faith, Masanja, Honorati, Ngugi, AK, Anthony K. Ngugi (569699), Kamuyu, Gathoni,, Wagner, RG, Patricia P Wilkins, Nutman, Thomas B, Lowe, B, Osier, Faith HA, Wilkins, Patricia P.,, Odermatt, P, Noh, JC, Bottomley, Christian,, Kakooza-Mwesige, A, Charles R. Newton (356066), Odhiambo, R, Anthony K Ngugi, Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige, Thomas B. Nutman, Ngugi, Anthony K, Faith H. A. Osier (34874), Thomas B. Nutman (113195), Newton, Charles R., Ryan G. Wagner (569701), Noh, John C.,, Masanja, H, Thomas B Nutman, Rachael Odhiambo, Ae-Ngibise, Kenneth, Kakooza-Mwesige, Angelina, John C Noh, Christian Bottomley (144483), Bottomley, C, Wilkins, Patricia, Ngugi, Anthony, Odhiambo, Rachael,, Mageto, James,, Study of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Sites (SEEDS) g, Mageto, James, Nutman, Thomas B., Noh, John C, Kenneth Ae-Ngibise (569703), Nutman, Thomas B.,, Wagner, Ryan, Mageto, J, John C. Noh, Newton, Charles, Brett Lowe, Patricia P. Wilkins, Newton, Charles R, James Mageto (569697), Newton, CR, Study of Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Sites group,, Bottomley, Christian, Osier, FH, Wagner, Ryan G., Seth Owusu-Agyei, Odermatt, Peter, Odhiambo, Rachael, Ae-Ngibise, K, Charles R. Newton, Patricia P. Wilkins (218298), Ngugi, Anthony K.,, Wagner, Ryan,   +99 more
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Global prevalence of Toxocara infection in dogs

, 2020
Dogs serve as the most important definitive hosts for Toxocara canis—a causative agent of human toxocariasis and one of the most widespread zoonotic helminth worldwide. The present study was undertaken to assess the global prevalence of T.
Hotez, PJ, Rostami, A, Guangxu Ma, Bill C.H. Chang, Spotin, A, Andreas Hofmann, Wang, T, Chang, BCH, Seyed Mohammad Riahi, Hofmann, A, Robin B. Gasser, Calum N.L. Macpherson, Taghipour, A, Fakhri, Y, Behniafar, H, Ali Rostami, Peter J. Hotez, Riahi, SM, Tao Wang, Adel Spotin, Ma, G, Hamed Behniafar, Yadolah Fakhri, Ali Taghipour, Macpherson, CNL, Gasser, RB   +25 more
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Genetic analysis of Toxocara spp. in stray cats and dogs in Van province, Eastern Turkey

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2018
Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati are roundworms of dogs and cats. The purpose of this study was to investigate the infection caused by these ascarids in cats and dogs, using microscopic and molecular analysis methods.
Oguz Bekir, Ozdal Nalan, Serdar Deger M.
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Parasitological findings and antiparasitic treatment of captive Jaguarundis Herpailurus yagouaroundi (Carnivora: Felidae) in a conservation center in Brazil

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
Ex situ management of wildlife provides a possibility for species maintenance, research development and environmental education.  But as captive facilities are usually much smaller than the area occupied by a species in the natural habitat, cleaning ...
Nárjara Veras Grossmann, Anderson Silva de Sousa, Rebecca Martins Cardoso, Estevam Guilherme Lux Hoppe   +3 more
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RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PARASITIC CONTAMINATION OF SOIL SAMPLED IN THE ASTRAKHAN REGION IN 2011-2015

Паёми Сино, 2021
Objective: To study and analyze the parasitic contamination of soil in the Astrakhan region in 2011-2015. Methods: On the territory of the Astrakhan region from 2011 to 2015, specialists at the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Astrakhan ...
T.V. NIKESHINA, R.S. ARAKELYAN, N.Z. SALIKHOV, A.I. BOLDYREVA   +3 more
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