Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati are common helminths that reside in the intestinal tract of cats and dogs. Toxocariasis and, commonly, T. canis, is a disease commonly seen in children, which is characterised by hypereosinophilia, hepatomegaly, fever, transient pulmonary infiltration, and hypergammaglobulinaemia. Humans, who are not the actual host for these parasitic worms, are infected follow...

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...

Toxocariasis is caused by the helminth Toxocara spp. Its prevalence is underestimated in many settings and affects primarily children due to their vulnerability. Toxocariasis may be an asymptomatic infection or it may progress to cause severe clinical forms. The aim of this paper is to describe the epidemiology, risk factors, clinical and laboratory diagnosis of visceral larva migrans that mani...

BACKGROUND Toxocariasis is a prevalent zoonosis disease caused by the closely related nematode species Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati which parasitise Canidae and Felidae respectively. In paratenic hosts, larvae of these worms cause multiple organ damage. However, how these paratenic hosts response to these worms and whether any common biomarker can be applied for diagnosis are still unclear....

PURPOSE To study a case with intraretinal Toxocara larvae in a granuloma using high-penetration optical coherence tomography (HP-OCT). METHODS A 50-year-old man, who was referred to our clinic with ocular toxocariasis, initially presented with granuloma formation in the retina. We followed the treatment-associated changes in the toxocariasis lesion by a series of examinations using HP-OCT bef...

everal methods for diagnosing human toxocariasis have been reported in the literature. Definitive diagnosis is by histopathological examination and morphological and morphometric identification of L2 in tissue samples. However, it is often not practical to obtain biopsy material to examine for larvae. The most effective laboratory diagnostic approach for toxocariasis in a patient suspected of b...

Children are the risk group for toxocariasis because they often play in public parks which are easily contaminated and also because pica is common among children. In the current study, soil samples from 111 parks in Aydin, a city in western Turkey, were assessed. Out of 111, 21 (18.91%) were contaminated with Toxocara spp eggs. Our public parks showed a high toxocariasis risk in our city and th...

Toxocariasis is a tissue zoonosis caused by Toxocara spp. and the exposure to these geohelminths varies in different parts of population particular region. The purpose study reveal seroprevalence toxocariasis North-eastern Bulgaria establish its demographic structure. Material/Methods: Within scope broad seroepidemiological study, 701 individuals from were tested for anti-Toxocara antibodies (E...

We present a case of ocular toxocariasis treated successfully with oral albendazole in combination with steroids. A 26-year-old male visited the authors' clinic with the chief complaint of flying flies in his right eye. The fundus photograph showed a whitish epiretinal scar, and the fluorescein angiography revealed a hypofluorescein lesion of the scar and late leakage at the margin. An elevated...