Prevalence of Toxocara and Toxascaris infection among human and animals in Iran with meta-analysis approach

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 20 - 17
• Main Authors: Eslahi, Aida Vafae, Badri, Milad, Khorshidi, Ali, Majidiani, Hamidreza, Hooshmand, Elham, Hosseini, Hamid, Taghipour, Ali, Foroutan, Masoud, Pestehchian, Nader, Firoozeh, Farzaneh, Riahi, Seyed Mohammad, Zibaei, Mohammad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 07.01.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Animals; Beef cattle; Cats; Child; Child, Preschool; Communicable animal diseases; Conferences and conventions; Diseases; Dogs; Epidemiology; Feces - parasitology; Foxes - parasitology; Host-Parasite Interactions; Humans; Infant; Infections; Infectious diseases; Iran - epidemiology; Jackals - parasitology; Meta-analysis; Parasites; Parasitic diseases; Prevalence; Reason; Risk Factors; Roundworm infections; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Serology; Statistics; Studies; Systematic review; Toxascaris; Toxascaris - immunology; Toxascaris - isolation & purification; Toxascaris leonina; Toxocara; Toxocara canis; Toxocara canis - immunology; Toxocara canis - isolation & purification; Toxocara cati; Toxocariasis; Toxocariasis - epidemiology; Toxocariasis - parasitology; Young Adult; Zoonoses; Iran; Toxocara canis; Toxocara cati; Iran; Toxocariasis; Systematic review; Toxascaris leonina; Meta-analysis

Toxocariasis is a worldwide zoonotic parasitic disease caused by species of Toxocara and Toxascaris, common in dogs and cats. Herein, a meta-analysis was contrived to assess the prevalence of Toxocara/Toxascaris in carnivore and human hosts in different regions of Iran from April 1969 to June 2019....