Presentation
The authors of this paper presented a 6-year-old patient who developed an ocular form of toxocariasis. Research frontiers The current report presents a 6-year-old patient who developed an ocular form of toxocariasis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Mild focal infiltration of lymphocytes was present between cardiac muscle fibers of the infected chickens. No lesions were seen in other tissues of the infected chickens. [parasitol.kr]
Prognosis is often correlated to presentation and the degree to which sequelae are present. Vision typically ranges from 20/40 to 20/400 depending on these factors. Toxocariasis ICD9 128.0. [eyewiki.aao.org]
Gastrointestinal
- Abdominal Pain
Common gastrointestinal complaints associated with helminth infection include abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhea. [amboss.com]
Patients may have pale skin, tiredness, weight loss, anorexia, fever, headache, rash, cough, asthma, chest tightness, increased irritability, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. [ivami.com]
When to Call the Doctor Call your doctor if your child has any of the symptoms of toxocariasis, including: fever rash cough or wheezing abdominal pain poor appetite vision problems Date reviewed: August 2014 [kidshealth.org]
These symptoms include recurrent abdominal pain which is often the sole presenting complaint, anorexia, behaviour disturbances, cervical adenitis, wheezing, limb pains, and fever ( 12, 17, 18 ). [phac-aspc.gc.ca]
- Regurgitation
Further unintended loss of worms may occur through coprophagia, mainly seen in dogs, or ingestion of regurgitated worms as seen in dogs and cats. Finally, only a necropsy can prove that the animal was completely cleared of an existing worm burden. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Cardiovascular
- Tachycardia
The symptoms of eosinophilic meningitis were described by Vidal et al. ( 63 ) for a 2-year-old boy who presented with mental confusion, fever, headache, tachycardia, hyperreflexia, dyspnoea, lethargy, irritability, motor weakness, and nuchal rigidity. [cmr.asm.org]
Psychiatrical
- Grieving
T., Grieve, R. B., Lauria, S. S., Jones, D. L. (1985): Serodiagnosis of ocular toxocariasis: A comparison of two antigens. J. Clin. Pathol., 38: 103–107 PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar Healer, J., Ashall, F., Maizels, R. [link.springer.com]
Kayes SG, Omholt PE, Grieve RB. Immune responses of CBA/J mice to graded infections with Toxocara canis. Infect Immun. 1985;48: 697–703. pmid:3997242 View Article PubMed/NCBI Google Scholar 40. Poulin R. [journals.plos.org]
- Withdrawn
The commercially available 0.35-ml pipette was emptied into a glass vial and the appropriate volume was withdrawn using a 1,000-μl pipette and applied to the cat's skin at the base of the skull in front of the shoulder blades. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Workup
Microbiology
- Staphylococcus Aureus
aureus ATCC 35884 Streptococcus oralis DSM 20627 Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC 6314-D Streptococcus pyogenes ATCC 12344-D Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DSM 30006 Citrobacter freundii DSM 30039 Escherichia coli R453 Escherichia coli R456 Escherichia coli [doi.org]
- Streptococcus Pneumoniae
[…] oralis DSM 20627 Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC 6314-D Streptococcus pyogenes ATCC 12344-D Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DSM 30006 Citrobacter freundii DSM 30039 Escherichia coli R453 Escherichia coli R456 Escherichia coli R457 Haemophilus influenzae DSM [doi.org]
- Trichophyton Rubrum
rubrum CTMA MYC001 The test phase for the presence of T. canis and T. cati in fecal samples was carried out on a panel of 24 feces from dogs (n = 14) and from cats (n = 10) collected by the Clinivet veterinary centre (Table 3 ). [doi.org]
- Alternaria
[…] gonorrhoeae ATCC 53420-D Neisseria meningitidis DSM 10036 Providencia stuartii DSM 4539 Pseudomonas aeruginosa DSM 50063 Pseudomonas fluorescens DSM 50090 Pseudomonas syringae DSM 1241 Serratia marcescens DSM 30121 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia DSM 8573 Alternaria [doi.org]
- Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
gonorrhoeae ATCC 53420-D Neisseria meningitidis DSM 10036 Providencia stuartii DSM 4539 Pseudomonas aeruginosa DSM 50063 Pseudomonas fluorescens DSM 50090 Pseudomonas syringae DSM 1241 Serratia marcescens DSM 30121 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia DSM 8573 [doi.org]
Treatment
Treatment with a broad-spectrum anthelmintic will control any cestode infection simultaneously. No treatment available for treatment of quiescent or reactivated larvae in the queen. Control via chemotherapies Fenbendazole Fenbendazole. [vetstream.com]
Treatment The aim of treatment is to protect young kittens and they should be treated routinely at 3 weekly intervals from 4 weeks to 16 weeks of age. In addition regular treatment of adults is advisable to reduce the re-infection rate. [provet.co.uk]
Prognosis
Pipreazine at a dose rate of 80-100 mg/kg body weight Prognosis The prognosis is good. Long term problems Re-infection is a problem in dogs living in areas in which there is high environmental contamination. [provet.co.uk]
Those that require surgical intervention typically have a poorer prognosis and visual acuity. [eyewiki.aao.org]
Prognosis and complications In the ocular form, outcome is variable but uniocular visual loss is not uncommon. In the visceral form, outcome is usually good but marked organ damage and even death can occur in extreme cases. [patient.info]
Etiology
In our case, we describe T. cati 's toxocarosis, albeit with an indirectly proven etiological connection. [pediatric-infectious-disease.imedpub.com]
In human beings, the main etiological agents for this syndrome are either Toxocara canis or Toxocara cati larvae (Schantz 1989). [memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br]
The etiology of visceral larva migrans. I. Diagnostic morphology of infective second-stage Toxocara larvae. [degruyter.com]
The etiology of visceral larva migrans. I. Diagnostic morphology of infective second-stage Toxocara larvae. J Parasitol. 1956;42:349-62. De Savigny DH. [revistabiomedica.org]
Epidemiology
Oxfordshire, CABI Publishing, pp 211–227 Google Scholar Overgaauw PAM (1997) Aspects of Toxocara epidemiology: toxocarosis in the human. [doi.org]
Implications of the findings for the epidemiology of toxocariasis are discussed. [scielo.br]
It is important for the epidemiology of the disease that infected animals emitting eggs have no clinical manifestations. [pediatric-infectious-disease.imedpub.com]
Descriptive epidemiology of intestinal helminth parasites from stray cat populations in Qatar. [cambridge.org]
Pathophysiology
Pathophysiology In humans, after contact with infected fecal material, the roundworm migrates throughout various organs but is unable to sexually mature. Reactive inflammatory processes lead to the organism's encapsulation. [eyewiki.aao.org]
Recently, Storch and colleagues ( 151 ) used clinical, neuroimaging, and serological data in a cross-sectional study of 20 patients suffering chronic VE to explore hypotheses relating to the pathophysiology and cause of chronic VE. [cmr.asm.org]
Prevention
Several heartworm preventatives also prevent and treat roundworm infections and include Heartgard®, from Merial, and Revolution®, manufactured by Pfizer. [critterology.com]
The main form of control is to prevent cats from obtaining infections by preventing access to paratenic hosts such as mice and other rodents and preventing access to eggs by promptly identifying and treating patent infections. [en.wikivet.net]
The treatment was well tolerated by pregnant queens as well as by four-weeks-old kittens.To our knowledge, this is the first publication that focuses on the prevention of lactogenic transmission of T. cati. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends that routine deworming of kittens begins at age 2 weeks to prevent hookworm infection and then the kittens should be placed on a monthly heartworm preventive that includes protection/deworming against Toxocara [veterinarypartner.com]
Good hygiene is good prevention Educate children to wash their hands after playing with dogs and cats. Try to stop children eating dirt and soil. Wash food that has been in contact with soil. [hyperdrug.co.uk]