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Measurement of the IgG Avidity Index in the Diagnosis of Clinical Toxocariasis Patients
Pathogens, 2021 Toxocara spp. are parasitic nematodes responsible for human toxocariasis, a common zoonotic helminth infection. The five main features of human toxocariasis are the classical ocular toxocariasis and visceral larva migrans syndrome, followed by covert ...
Lea Luciani, Coralie L'Ollivier
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Prevalence and risk factors of toxocariasis in beef calves in Pandak, Indonesia: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Open Veterinary JournalBackground: Toxocariasis, caused by Toxocara vitulorum, is economically detrimental to beef calves. Despite its potential impact on cattle productivity, toxocariasis remains underrecognized by local farmers in Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Widodo Suwito +4 more
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Toxocara infection in pregnant women: seroprevalence and risk factors [PDF]
BMC Women's HealthBackground Human toxocariasis caused by T. canis is a worldwide and typically neglected zoonotic parasitic disease. Certain behaviors such as a geophagia habit, poor personal hygiene, close contact with young dogs, and ingestion of raw meat, as well as ...
Marjan Noori +7 more
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Pulmonary and Liver Toxocariasis Mimicking Metastatic Tumors in a Patient with Colon Cancer
Diagnostics, 2023 Toxocariasis is an uncommon cause of multiple cavitary lung lesions and an ill-defined liver lesion. We herein report a patient with lung and liver toxocariasis, which mimicked metastatic lesions of colon cancer on 18F-FDG PET–CT and chest and abdominal ...
Miju Cheon, Jang Yoo
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Small-area estimation of the probability of toxocariasis in New York City based on sociodemographic neighborhood composition. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Toxocariasis is increasingly recognized as an important neglected infection of poverty (NIP) in developed countries, and may constitute the most important NIP in the United States (US) given its association with chronic sequelae such as asthma and poor ...
Michael G Walsh, M A Haseeb
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Epidemiology of human toxocariasis in Poland – A review of cases 1978–2009
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2015 Toxocariasis is a helminthozoonosis due to the infection of humans with larvae belonging to the Toxocara genus. Humans become infected as a result of accidental consumption of infected eggs containing third stage larvae (L3) nematodes from Toxocara canis
Anna Borecka, Teresa Kłapeć
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Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2021 Background: Human toxocariasis is a neglected parasitic disease in most countries including Iran. Among different clinical forms of toxocariasis, ocular toxocariasis (OT) is an important disease resulting in severe vision loss.
Abdolmajid Fata +6 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 Toxocariasis is worldwide endemic parasitic anthropozoonosis with high risk to those in in vulnerable populations and particularly during pregnancy and childhood. Although the prevalence of anti-Toxocara spp. antibodies has been extensively studied, risk
Priscila de Oliveira Azevedo +7 more
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Adult human case of toxocariasis with pulmonary migratory infiltrate and eosinophilia [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2011 Introduction. Toxocariasis is a zoonosis which is in Serbia characterized with a very high infection rate of dogs and excessive contamination of the soil with the eggs of Toxocara canis, the agent of the disease.
Považan Đorđe +6 more
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Image Case:Ocular Toxocariasis in 14 Years Old Male. [PDF]
Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2019 Toxocariasis is one of zoonotic infections all over the world that is caused by Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati. Infection with Toxocara occurs by accidentlal ingestion of embryonated eggs or larvae which have been shed in the feces of infected animals.
Tarek Zaher +3 more
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