Meningitis by Toxocara canis after Ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver

Recently reports on toxocariasis are increasing by serodiagnosis in Korea. A previously healthy 17-yr-old boy complained of headache, fever, dyspnea, and anorexia. He showed symptoms and signs of eosinophilic meningitis with involvement of the lungs and liver. Specific IgG antibody to Toxocara canis...

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Autores principales: Noh, Young, Hong, Sung-Tae, Yun, Ji Young, Park, Hong-Kyun, Oh, Jung-Hwan, Kim, Young Eun, Jeon, Beom S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3429831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22969260
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2012.27.9.1105
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author Noh, Young
Hong, Sung-Tae
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Oh, Jung-Hwan
Kim, Young Eun
Jeon, Beom S.
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description Recently reports on toxocariasis are increasing by serodiagnosis in Korea. A previously healthy 17-yr-old boy complained of headache, fever, dyspnea, and anorexia. He showed symptoms and signs of eosinophilic meningitis with involvement of the lungs and liver. Specific IgG antibody to Toxocara canis larval antigen was positive in serum and cerebrospinal fluid by ELISA. He took raw ostrich liver with his parents 4 weeks before the symptom onset. His parents were seropositive for T. canis antigen but had no symptoms or signs suggesting toxocariasis. This is the first report of toxocariasis in a family due to ingestion of raw ostrich liver in Korea.
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spelling pubmed-34298312012-09-12 Meningitis by Toxocara canis after Ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver Noh, Young Hong, Sung-Tae Yun, Ji Young Park, Hong-Kyun Oh, Jung-Hwan Kim, Young Eun Jeon, Beom S. J Korean Med Sci Case Report Recently reports on toxocariasis are increasing by serodiagnosis in Korea. A previously healthy 17-yr-old boy complained of headache, fever, dyspnea, and anorexia. He showed symptoms and signs of eosinophilic meningitis with involvement of the lungs and liver. Specific IgG antibody to Toxocara canis larval antigen was positive in serum and cerebrospinal fluid by ELISA. He took raw ostrich liver with his parents 4 weeks before the symptom onset. His parents were seropositive for T. canis antigen but had no symptoms or signs suggesting toxocariasis. This is the first report of toxocariasis in a family due to ingestion of raw ostrich liver in Korea. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2012-09 2012-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3429831/ /pubmed/22969260 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2012.27.9.1105 Text en © 2012 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Meningitis by Toxocara canis after Ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver
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title_full Meningitis by Toxocara canis after Ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver
title_fullStr Meningitis by Toxocara canis after Ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver
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title_short Meningitis by Toxocara canis after Ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver
title_sort meningitis by toxocara canis after ingestion of raw ostrich liver
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2012.27.9.1105
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