A 41-year-old woman who was diagnosed with myocarditis presented eosinophilia. Since the antibody against Toxocara canis (T. canis) was positive, we diagnosed that she had visceral larva migrans due to T. canis associated with myocarditis. She was treated with oral albendazole and prednisolone for two weeks, eosinophil count and hepatic enzymes were normalized after completion of treatment. Thi...

The number of articles published in American Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology over the last 15 years on visceral afferents has increased dramatically. This reflects our growing ability to study the characteristics and function of visceral afferents and also the recognition of their importance in the maintenance of homeostasis and also in a number of pathophysiological...

The fourth instar larva of Stilobezzia punctulata Lane is described for the first time and the one of Stilobezzia fiebrigi Kieffer is redescribed. They are illustrated and photomicrographed from material collected in different aquatic environments of the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Both species show features typical to carnivorous-predatory larva.

In order to study the environmental contamination by Toxocara spp. eggs in a rural community from the Pontal do Paranapanema region, São Paulo State, Brazil, soil samples from 31 out of 121 plots were collected in eight different places on each house. The samples were submitted to flotation technique in sodium nitrate (d = 1.20 g/cm3). Eggs of Toxocara spp. were recovered in nine (29.03%) out o...

1 Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion Saint Pierre, Reunion Island, France, 2 Department of Hematology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Reunion Saint Pierre, Reunion Island, France, 3 Department of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Reunion Saint Pierre, Reunion Island, France, 4 Department of Medical P...

Human toxocarosis is an important parasitic zoonosis caused by larval stages of Toxocara species, the roundworms from dogs and cats. Larval migration through different soft tissues in the human generates several clinical entities in the patient, such as visceral larva migrans, ocular toxocarosis, and neurotoxocarosis. Definitive diagnosis by histopathological methods is very difficult or almost...

A four-year-old boy was seen in the Eye Department at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, because his parents had noticed that his right pupil appeared white. The diagnosis of toxocaral endophthalmitis was later made. The pathogenesis and management of infestation by Toxocara species are described.