The influence of age on a clinical presentation of Toxocara spp. infection in children

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-236

  Mazur Melewska, Katarzyna ^a   Mania, Anna ^a   Figlerowicz, Magdalena ^a,b   Kemnitz, Paweł ^a   Słuzewski, Wojciech ^a   Michalak, Michał ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b The President Stanis aw Wojciechowski State University of Applied Sciences in Kalisz   (Poland)

Author keywords

Children; Clinical presentation; Toxocara

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPER IGE SYNDROME; HYPERACTIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDER; SPLENOMEGALY; STRABISMUS; TOXOCARIASIS; URTICARIA; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS;

NEMATODA; TOXOCARA;

EID: 84863521174     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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