background: the effect of temperature and humidity on the maturation of toxocara cati eggs in an in vitro system was investigated. methods: suspensions of toxocara cati eggs, with 5% formalin/saline or 2.5% formalin/ringer were prepared and maintained at 37 °c under 40% humidity or at 25 °c under 98% humidity for 3 weeks for egg development. results: the suspension sample mixed by 2.5% formalin...

The aim of this study was to compare the performance of three in-house diagnostic tests, that is, histopathology, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), for the diagnosis after experimental infection with Toxocara cati. Twenty Mongolian gerbils and Wistar rats were divided into ten groups (n = 2/group). Toxocara cati infections were established in Mongol...

We report four cases of passage of subadult or adult Toxocara cati worms by young children ages 20 months to seven years. Worms were expelled rectally in two cases and in two cases they were vomited. A single worm was passed in two cases, three worms in one case, and 15 worms in the fourth case. All worms that were available for study were identified as T. cati by morphologic criteria, includin...

Ilinkaccenturam No.1, Canta Cantirotayam, Kowri Cintamani Centuram and Cati Campirakkulampu the four mercurial drugs of Siddha system of medicine have been chemically analysed for laying down standards. The physico-chemicals data presented can be taken as parameters to fix standards.

Toxocara cati is a common feline parasite transmitted by the ingestion of embryonated eggs, by the transmammary route or by predation of paratenic hosts harbouring third-stage larvae in their bodies. In the present study, the larval distribution of T. cati in tissues and organs of Rattus norvegicus experimentally infected with 300 embryonated eggs was analysed. Third-stage larvae were recovered...

background: toxocara is a common nematode of cats in different parts of iran. despite the close association of cats with human, no attempt has been done so far for molecular identification of this nematode in the country. therefore, current study was performed on identification of some isolates of toxocara from stray cats in shiraz, fars province, southern iran, based on morphological and molec...

purification of parasitic antigens is a major activity in immunoparasitology because of its application in immunodiagnosis, vaccination analysis of immunopathology, preparation of monocolomal antibody and finding out the cross reactive antigens versus specific antigens of a parasite. in this survey f2 ultrafiltration excretory secretory antigens of ascaris lumbricoides and toxocara cati were se...

alter a definition of the condition of larva migrants and a description of the types of helminthes which cause this affection in man a brief account of the pathology and clinical manifestations of both visceral and coetaneous larva migrants is given. studies undertaken in iran have revealed the presence of most of 1ihe animal helminthes which cause coetaneous larva migrants of the parasites whi...

Toxocariasis is currently considered an important zoonosis in many countries and is usually attributed to larvae of Toxocara canis Werner, 1782 but less frequently, T. cat. This study attempts to compare the migration routes followed by T. canis and Toxocara cati (Schrank, 1788) in Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout, 1769 and to determine the percentage of larvae recovered in each organ of experiment...

We present the case of a young police officer suffering from headache without other neurological symptoms caused by isolated eosinophilic meningitis, which resulted from an infection with Toxocara cati, along with a discussion of the differential diagnosis.