期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2015
卷号：22
期号：1
页码：28-31
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1141364
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Toxocariasis is a helminthozoonosis due to the infection of humans with larvae belonging to the Toxocara genus. Humansbecome infected as a result of accidental consumption of infected eggs containing third stage larvae (L3) nematodes fromToxocara canis or Toxocara cati species. Toxocariasis was recognized for the first time in the early 1950s, and the first casesof toxocariasis in Poland were described a few years later. Toxocariasis is clinically classified into several types: classic andincomplete visceral larva migrans (VLM) syndrome, ocular larva migrans (OLM) syndrome, neurological toxocariasis (NLM),covert toxocariasis and asymptomatic toxocariasis. In 1994–2005, 18,367 sera of people suspected of being infected withToxocara were analysed, 1.8–76% had anti- Toxocara antibodies. In the period 1978–2009, 1,022 clinical cases of toxocariasiswere recognized in Poland. In the opinion of the authors, in order to reduce the frequency of toxocariasis in humanpopulations, some prophylaxis should undertaken, e.g. public education of zoonotic diseases, systematic control of animal,deworming of pets, cleaning pets’ faeces by the owners
