Cutaneous larva migrans--report of three probable cases.

Larva migrans denotes the prolonged migration of a larval parasite in the skin or intestinal organs of an abnormal host, usually man.' There are two types of larva migrans. Visceral larva migrans is the more common type mostly caused by larvae of dog and cat ascarids of the genus Toxocara? A few cases of Cutaneous larva migrans have been reported from Malaysia'' and Singapore,4,S though it has been widely reported in Florida.f Texas7 and Australia." Both types may be more common in Malaysia than generally thought. Cutaneous larva migrans can also be caused by human species of nematodes in the immune human host or by animal species of nematodes in immune as well as non-immune humans.'