Toxocariasis: Clinical aspects, epidemiology, medical ecology, and molecular aspects

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-272

  Despommier, Dickson ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRONCHOSPASM; CAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EOSINOPHILIA; EYE INFECTION; FEVER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA M; LARVA; LIVER NECROSIS; MYOCARDITIS; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS; URBAN POPULATION; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; NEMATODA; PROTEUS ANGUINUS; TOXOCARA;

EID: 0037398481     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.16.2.265-272.2003     Document Type: Review

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