A walk on the wild side: A review of the epidemiology of Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati in wild hosts [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2023 Toxocara species are cosmopolitan nematode parasites of companion, domestic and wild hosts. Of the 26 known species of Toxocara, only Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati are definitively zoonotic. The significance of wild carnivores as definitive hosts of T.
Celia V. Holland
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Atypical Toxocara canis-Induced Hepatic Visceral Larva Migrans: Diagnostic Challenges and Literature Review [PDF]
The Korean Journal of GastroenterologyToxocariasis, a zoonotic infection transmitted by Toxocara canis (from dogs) and Toxocara cati (from cats) larvae, poses rare but severe risks to humans.
Tien Manh Huynh +5 more
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Toxocara canis-induced changes in host intestinal microbial communities [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2023 Background Toxocara canis is a roundworm that resides in the gastrointestinal tract of dogs and causes various pathological changes. The dog’s intestinal system consists of a diverse and dynamic bacterial community that has extensive effects on ...
Soben Sieng +4 more
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Hemato-Biochemical changes in dogs infected with toxocara canis in Hurghada and Luxor governorate
SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2022 Toxocara canis is a gastrointestinal nematode affecting dogs with significant public health importance. this study is conducted to find the hematological and biochemical changes in dogs infected with toxocara canis and to detect the effects of sex, age,
Moshera Abdelkareem +2 more
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Identificación molecular del Toxocara canis en caninos del cantón Salcedo, Ecuador
Revista Científica y Tecnológica UPSE, 2022 Los nemátodos constituyen un importante problema de salud pública. Por ello, la identificación del Toxocara canis de aislamientos en caninos del cantón Salcedo, provincia Cotopaxi (Ecuador), mediante la secuenciación de la región del espaciador ...
Edilberto Chacón Marcheco +4 more
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Detection of enteric parasite DNA in household and bed dust samples: potential for infection transmission. [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND: Enteric parasites are transmitted in households but few studies have sampled inside households for parasites and none have used sensitive molecular methods.
Calderón, E +5 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 +9 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 Purpose: Toxocariasis is a zoonosis that is mainly caused by the dog roundworm Toxocara canis and the cat roundworm T. cati. The prevalence of T. canis-specific antibodies in humans is 2-5% in Germany. Many infections with Toxocara spp.
J. Schaefer +6 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2010 INTRODUÇÃO: Toxocara canis é um ascarídeo parasita do intestino delgado de cães, causador da larva migrans visceral em seres humanos. MÉTODOS: Com o objetivo de demonstrar a eficácia do fungo Pochonia chlamydosporia sobre ovos de Toxocara canis em ...
Luiza Neme Frassy +5 more
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2010 Toxocara canis is a common canine nematode parasite and one of its possible transmission mechanisms is the predation of infected rodents by canids. Fifty Rattus norvegicus were used to study behavioral alterations in rodents infected by T.
Pedro P. Chieffi +4 more
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