Toxocariasis: America's most common neglected infection of poverty and a helminthiasis of global importance?

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Hotez, Peter J ^a,b   Wilkins, Patricia P ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SABIN VACCINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CAT DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOG DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL STATUS; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CAT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; HEALTH; LIVER; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CATS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; HUMANS; LIVER; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SANITATION; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 65549152222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000400     Document Type: Editorial

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