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Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A boy affected by autism spectrum disorder was admitted for persistent high fever, without shiver, for two weeks. The boy referred to abdominal pain, in the first week of fever, and to mild anorexia in the last days before admittance to our hospital centre. The father reported that the boy suffered...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7795894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33401653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010283 |
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author | Pieroni, Filippo Massei, Francesco Micheletti, Maria Vittoria Luti, Laura De Marco, Emanuela Ludovisi, Alessandra Casazza, Gabriella Bruschi, Fabrizio |
author_facet | Pieroni, Filippo Massei, Francesco Micheletti, Maria Vittoria Luti, Laura De Marco, Emanuela Ludovisi, Alessandra Casazza, Gabriella Bruschi, Fabrizio |
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description | A boy affected by autism spectrum disorder was admitted for persistent high fever, without shiver, for two weeks. The boy referred to abdominal pain, in the first week of fever, and to mild anorexia in the last days before admittance to our hospital centre. The father reported that the boy suffered by geophagia and coprophagia and he has been going to a didactical farm (where he has been exposed to several kinds of animals) to improve his neuropsychiatric condition. Blood analysis shows severe eosinophilia and high levels of total IgE, and abdominal echocardiography showed hepatic lesions. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and Western blot (WB) confirmed the suspicion of toxocariasis, linked to the habit of the boy to ingest ground or animal faeces in a didactic farm frequented by the boy. Treatment with albendazole and prednisone was administered with a rapid improvement of the symptoms and the laboratory findings and significant reduction of the hepatic lesion. |
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spelling | pubmed-77958942021-01-10 Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder Pieroni, Filippo Massei, Francesco Micheletti, Maria Vittoria Luti, Laura De Marco, Emanuela Ludovisi, Alessandra Casazza, Gabriella Bruschi, Fabrizio Int J Environ Res Public Health Case Report A boy affected by autism spectrum disorder was admitted for persistent high fever, without shiver, for two weeks. The boy referred to abdominal pain, in the first week of fever, and to mild anorexia in the last days before admittance to our hospital centre. The father reported that the boy suffered by geophagia and coprophagia and he has been going to a didactical farm (where he has been exposed to several kinds of animals) to improve his neuropsychiatric condition. Blood analysis shows severe eosinophilia and high levels of total IgE, and abdominal echocardiography showed hepatic lesions. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and Western blot (WB) confirmed the suspicion of toxocariasis, linked to the habit of the boy to ingest ground or animal faeces in a didactic farm frequented by the boy. Treatment with albendazole and prednisone was administered with a rapid improvement of the symptoms and the laboratory findings and significant reduction of the hepatic lesion. MDPI 2021-01-02 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7795894/ /pubmed/33401653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010283 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Pieroni, Filippo Massei, Francesco Micheletti, Maria Vittoria Luti, Laura De Marco, Emanuela Ludovisi, Alessandra Casazza, Gabriella Bruschi, Fabrizio Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
title | Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
title_full | Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
title_fullStr | Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
title_full_unstemmed | Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
title_short | Toxocariasis in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
title_sort | toxocariasis in a child with autism spectrum disorder |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7795894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33401653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010283 |
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