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Infections > Parasitic Diseases > Helminthiasis > Helminthiasis, Animal > Toxocariasis
Animal Diseases > Parasitic Diseases, Animal > Helminthiasis, Animal > Toxocariasis
Infections > Parasitic Diseases > Parasitic Diseases, Animal > Helminthiasis, Animal > Toxocariasis

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Toxocariasis  

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Note

  • an Ascaridida infect but differentiate from TOXASCARIASIS, also an Ascaridida infect; coord IM with species (IM); in animals but check tag ANIMAL; in man, probably is LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL

Scope note

  • Infection by round worms of the genus TOXOCARA, usually found in wild and domesticated cats and dogs and foxes, except for the larvae, which may produce visceral and ocular larva migrans in man.

History note

  • 89(75); was see under ASCARIASIS 1967-88

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014120

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