منابع مشابه
Ocular Toxocariasis
Toxocara canis/cati are parasitic nematodes that resides in the small intestine of dogs, cats and wild carnivores. They are found worldwide. Female worms are approximately 10 cm long and produce hundreds of embrionated eggs per day. Following several weeks in the environment, the embryo matures to the infective larval stage within the egg. It can remain viable for very long periods of time. The...
متن کاملDiagnosis of ocular toxocariasis by establishing intraocular antibody production.
PURPOSE To investigate the role of Toxocara canis in posterior uveitis of undetermined origin. DESIGN Retrospective case-study. METHODS Paired ocular fluid (47 aqueous humor [AH] and two vitreous fluids) and serum samples of 37 adults and 12 children with undetermined posterior uveitis were retrospectively analyzed for intraocular IgG antibody production against Toxocara canis by enzyme-lin...
متن کاملMolecular Diagnosis of an Ocular Toxocariasis Patient in Vietnam
An ocular Toxocara canis infection is reported for the first time in Vietnam. A 34-year-old man residing in a village of Son La Province, North Vietnam, visited the National Eye Hospital (NEH) in August 2011. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and loss of vision occurred over 3 months before visiting the hospital. The eye examination in the hospital showed damage of the left eye, red...
متن کاملOcular toxocariasis in adults.
Human infection by toxocara larvae has been thought to be predominantly a disease of young children, but the percentage of the population with antibodies to this nematode worm has recently been shown to increase with age. Although a definite diagnosis of ocular toxocariasis can be made only by identifying the larva histologically, the evidence in three cases presenting with recent uniocular los...
متن کاملOcular toxocariasis in schoolchildren.
Ocular toxocariasis in humans is typically a unilateral disease caused by second-stage larvae of the Toxocara species. Serological evidence of widespread infection in humans provides little information on clinical disease. There is only a single previous estimate of the prevalence of ocular toxocariasis (from Alabama). The present survey examined the extent of consultant-diagnosed toxocaral eye...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0814-9763,1440-1606
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1983.tb01065.x