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Toxocara Canis: Human Health Impact

The document discusses Toxocara canis, a parasitic roundworm that can infect humans. It describes the life cycle of T. canis, including that eggs are passed in dog feces. It also shows images of the damage T. canis larvae can cause, including granulomas and inflammation in tissues like the eye, liver and other organs.

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Toxocara Canis: Human Health Impact

The document discusses Toxocara canis, a parasitic roundworm that can infect humans. It describes the life cycle of T. canis, including that eggs are passed in dog feces. It also shows images of the damage T. canis larvae can cause, including granulomas and inflammation in tissues like the eye, liver and other organs.

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Eggs of Toxocara canis. These eggs are passed in dog feces,


especially puppies' feces. Humans do not produce or excrete
eggs, and, therefore, eggs are not a diagnostic finding in
human toxocariasis. The egg to the left is fertilized but not yet
embryonated, while the egg to the right contains a well-
developed larva. The latter egg would be infective if ingested
by a human (frequently, a child).
Fundal photograph showing a large central granuloma and
traction on the retinal vessels.
Another fundus with a large white granuloma at the posterior
pole.
Toxocara canis. Fundus damage from larval invasion.
Hystology shows a granuloma in the posterior pole of an eye.
Higer power demonstrates the encysted nematode.
Toxocariasis (visceral larva migrans) with Toxocara canis
larvae on liver biopsy.
Toxocariasis.
Liver biopsy showing
granuloma with
numerous eoziniphils.
Remains of the
nematode can
sometimes be detected
in the centre of the
granuloma.
Toxocara canis.
Necrotizing eosinophilic granulomatous inflammation secondary to visceral
larva migrans (Toxocara canis). Note palisading at the periphery of the
lesion. The central necrotic portion has an abundance of eosinophils and
many scattered crystalline structures. The surrounding inflammatory
response is also rich in eosinophils. No parasite is identified, but the patient
was found to have visceral larva migrans.

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