Title
Diagnosis of human toxocarosis
Other title
Diagnóstico de la toxocarosis humana
Date Issued
01 January 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
Human toxocarosis is an important parasitic zoonosis caused by larval stages of Toxocara species, the roundworms from dogs and cats. Larval migration through different soft tissues in the human generates several clinical entities in the patient, such as visceral larva migrans, ocular toxocarosis, and neurotoxocarosis. Definitive diagnosis by histopathological methods is very difficult or almost impossible and, nowadays, the diagnosis is usually made by clinical signs/symptoms, epidemiological background of the patient and the use of hematological and immunological tests which finally help to confirm the clinical suspicion of the illness. The purpose of this paper was to update the available knowledge on the use of different tools for both the diagnosis and following up of human toxocarosis.
Start page
613
End page
620
Volume
27
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Tecnología médica de laboratorio (análisis de muestras, tecnologías para el diagnóstico)
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-78751522120
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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