Seroepidemiology of Toxocara canis in Children under 14 Years Referring to Laboratories of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Southeast of Iran
| Autor: | Mahdi Khoshsima-Shahraki, Mansour Dabirzadeh, Hakim Azizi, Ali Asghar Neshat, Babak Djahed, Javad Khedri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Veterinary medicine
Prevalence Iran Antibodies lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Serology Blood serum parasitic diseases Medicine Eosinophilia Seroprevalence lcsh:RC109-216 Seroepidemiology Toxocariasis biology business.industry Toxocara canis biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Canis Parasitology medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Iranian Journal of Parasitology, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 89-94 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1735-7020 |
| DOI: | 10.18502/ijpa.v14i1.721 |
| Popis: | Background: The aim of the present survey was to assess thr seroepidemiologic and parasitological aspects of Toxocara canis infection in children under 14 yr old. Methods: Overall, 963 sera were collected from children in the Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Southeast of Iran during the period from Sep 2015 to Jun 2016. IgG antibody against T. canis in the subjects’ sera was evaluated using the commercial ELISA kit. Results: Anti-Toxocara IgG were detected in the serum of 17 (1.7%) of the participants. In the examined children, the highest presence of anti-Toxocara antibodies was 2.1% (9/418) in 6-10-yr olds, which was higher than other age groups (P |
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