Toxocara canis
ELISA Seropositivity for Toxocara Canis Antibodies in Malaysia, 1989 1991
... ELlSA Seropositivity for Toxocara canis Antibodies in Malaysia, 1989 1991 ORIGINAL ARTICLE ELlSA Seropositivity for Toxocara canis Antibodies in Malaysia, 1989 1991 S L Hakim, MSc ] w Mak, MRCPath P L[.] ...
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Comparative bioinformatic analysis suggests that specific dauer like signalling pathway components regulate Toxocara canis development and migration in the mammalian host
... The biology of T. canis is complex and involves canids (e.g. dogs, wolves and foxes) as definitive hosts, paratenic hosts such as rodents, and accidental hosts including humans [2, 3]. The eggs of this parasite ...
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Neuroinvasion of Toxocara canis- and T. cati-larvae mediates dynamic changes in brain cytokine and chemokine profile
... species Toxocara canis (Werner 1782) and ...infective Toxocara larvae ...against Toxocara species range from 2 to 44% in Europe and 63 to 93% in tropical regions [6, 11 – 13], cases of NT tend ...
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New insights into the immunopathology of early Toxocara canis infection in mice
... Toxocariasis is caused by ingestion of fully embryonated eggs or ingestion of infective larvae together with parate- nic hosts of the nematode roundworms Toxocara canis (Werner 1782) or Toxocara cati ...
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The relationship between three intensity levels of Toxocara canis larvae in the brain and effects on exploration, anxiety, learning and memory in the murine host
... source. Toxocara canis infection in laboratory rats (Olson & Rose, 1966) and laboratory mice (Dolinsky et ...T. canis ova showed that infected rats displayed decreased ability to learn simple and ...
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CAP protein superfamily members in Toxocara canis
... predicted Toxocara canis CAP protein sequences with homologs in Caenorhabditis elegans and parasitic nematodes including Ascaris lumbricoides (Al), Anisakis simplex (As), Ascaris suum (Asu), Brugia malayi ...
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Aquaporin 1 is located on the intestinal basolateral membrane in Toxocara canis and might play a role in drug uptake
... Toxocara canis, the roundworm commonly found in canids and the main causative agent for human toxoca- riasis, is a parasitic nematode of public health impor- tance to be investigated [31, ...T. canis ...
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Purified protein derivative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and excretory secretory antigen(s) of Toxocara canis expand in vitro human T cells with stable and opposite (type 1 T helper or type 2 T helper) profile of cytokine production
... Abstract A large series of T cell clones TCC specific for purified protein derivative PPD of Mycobacterium tuberculosis total 60 or Toxocara canis excretory/secretory TES antigen total 6[r] ...
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Successful capture of Toxocara canis larva antigens from human serum samples
... Background: Toxocara canis is a nematode that parasitizes dogs, while humans are paratenic ...anti-T. canis antibodies which may cross-react with other parasites, mainly nematodes with ...
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Recurrent patent infections with Toxocara canis in household dogs older than six months: a prospective study
... T. canis eggs [13–16], posing a risk for human infection, is used to justify the current ‘preventive’ three-to-four-times- a-year blind deworming advice for household dogs in this age category ...T. canis ...
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Seroepidemiology of Toxocara Canis infection among primary schoolchildren in the capital area of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
... T. canis have been linked to impaired cognitive development [25,38], generating cause for ...T. canis infection is associated with epi- lepsy ...T. canis in RMI warrants further compre- hensive ...
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Presence of anti-Toxocara canis antibodies and risk factors in children from the Amecameca and Chalco regions of México
... T. canis, and the risk of transmission increases with the degree of environmental ...T. canis but this was not a significant as- ...T. canis exposure in children (OR = ...anti-T. canis ...
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Neurotoxocarosis: marked preference of Toxocara canis for the cerebrum and T cati for the cerebellum in the paratenic model host mouse
... T. canis larvae in the cerebrum is rather surprising as previous studies demonstrated ...T. canis and ...T. canis larvae may arrest in the small cerebrum ...T. canis infected mice, however, ...
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Duplex quantitative real time PCR assay for the detection and discrimination of the eggs of Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati (Nematoda, Ascaridoidea) in soil and fecal samples
... of Toxocara, a worldwide distributed roundworm genus of the ascaroid ...group. Toxocara species of human and ani- mal health significance are essentially represented by ...T. canis and ...T. ...
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Phylogenetic Analysis of C Type Lectin from Toxocara canis Infective Larvae and Comparison with the C Type Lectin Fam-ily in the Immune System of Mouse and Human
... T. canis larvae ...T. canis CTL gene was 657 bp in length and encoded a protein with 219 amino acids with a molecular weight of about 24 ...T. canis from dogs in Iran I showed few differences in ...
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Seroepidemiology of Toxocara canis in Children under 14 Years Referring to Laboratories of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Southeast of Iran
... T. canis worms can lay as many as 200,000 eggs per ...Non-embryonated Toxocara eggs are passed through dog feces, become infectious in suitable environments (temperatures of 10-35 °C and high soil hu- ...
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MicroRNAs of Toxocara canis and their predicted functional roles
... To investigate the transcriptional profiles of miRNAs predicted to be involved in developmental and repro- ductive processes, qPCR was employed to assess levels of transcription for selected miRNAs in the different body ...
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In Vitro Assessment of Balanites aegyptiaca Fruit Methanolic Extract on the Adult Toxocara canis
... Methods: B. aegyptiaca fruits were procured from the local markets in Aswan, Up- per Egypt and authenticated at the Herbarium of National Research Centre. The effect of methanolic extract of B. aegyptiaca fruits on adult ...
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Serum metabolomic alterations in Beagle dogs experimentally infected with Toxocara canis
... T. canis eggs by LC‑MS/MS. We tested whether the T. canis‑associated differentially abundant metabolites could distinguish the serum of infected dogs from controls, as measured by the area under the ...
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Parasites of importance for human health in Nigerian dogs: high prevalence and limited knowledge of pet owners
... (Ctenocephalides canis, Pulex irritans, Tunga penetrans), mites (Demodex canis, Otodectes ...var. canis), ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ixodes ...(Trichodectes canis); and Toxocara ...
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