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Descriptor English: Toxocariasis
Descriptor Spanish: Toxocariasis
Descriptor toxocariasis
Scope note: Infección producida por nematodos del género TOXOCARA, que suele encontrarse en gatos salvajes y domésticos y en perros y lobos, exceptuando las larvas, que pueden producir larva migrans visceral y ocular en el ser humano.
Descriptor Portuguese: Toxocaríase
Descriptor French: Toxocarose
Entry term(s): Toxocariases
Tree number(s): C01.610.335.349.868
C01.610.335.508.700.100.868
C01.610.701.377.868
C22.674.377.868
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014120
Scope note: Infection by round worms of the genus TOXOCARA, usually found in wild and domesticated cats and dogs and foxes, except for the larvae, which may produce visceral and ocular larva migrans in man.
Annotation: an Ascaridida infect but differentiate from TOXASCARIASIS, also an Ascaridida infect; coord IM with species (IM); in animals but check tag ANIMAL; in man, probably is LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 89; was see under ASCARIASIS 1967-88
Online Note: search ASCARIASIS 1967-74
History Note: 89(75); was see under ASCARIASIS 1967-88
DeCS ID: 24357
Unique ID: D014120
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Toxocariasis - Preferred
Concept UI M0021726
Scope note Infection by round worms of the genus TOXOCARA, usually found in wild and domesticated cats and dogs and foxes, except for the larvae, which may produce visceral and ocular larva migrans in man.
Preferred term Toxocariasis
Entry term(s) Toxocariases



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