The expanded spectrum of toxocaral disease

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 1; no. 8587; p. 692
• Main Authors: Taylor, M R, Keane, C T, O'Connor, P, Mulvihill, E, Holland, C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 26.03.1988
• Subjects: Adolescent; Animals; Antibodies, Helminth - analysis; Ascariasis - epidemiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Diagnosis, Differential; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Eosinophilia - immunology; Eosinophils; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Larva Migrans, Visceral - blood; Larva Migrans, Visceral - immunology; Leukocyte Count; Male; Toxocara - immunology; Toxocariasis - complications; Toxocariasis - epidemiology; Toxocariasis - immunology

Among 137 members of 30 families, 6% (and 8% of those aged under 15 years) were seropositive for toxocara antibodies. In these seropositive subjects and in 84 patients known to have raised toxocara titres the commonest clinical features were abdominal pain, hepatomegaly, anorexia, nausea, vomiting,...