Ocular toxocariasis, though rare, causes blindness in seven out of 10 of those affected by it, typically children, according to a national survey conducted by the CDC. The agency identified 68 ...

Dogs and cats are the definitive hosts for the roundworm species that commonly cause human disease. Helminthiasis Toxocara canis - also known as dog roundworm. The life cycle of the roundworm ...

Closer examination of the detected eggs found that most were potentially infective, and most were of the species Toxocara canis—the common dog roundworm. On the basis of these findings ...

canis and T. cati Don't gloat, cat-haters, dogs can also carry the parasite. It's caused by the larval form of the roundworms that infect cats and dogs, even when they are young. Called Toxocara ...

The disease is caused by Toxocara canis and T. cati, which live within the intestines of dogs and cats. Most human patients are children between the ages of two and four years, who become infected ...

and colleagues measured the levels of a broad variety of different lipid mediators in the brains of mice infected with either the dog roundworm Toxocara canis or the cat roundworm Toxocara cati.

University of Melbourne parasitologist Vito Colella said there was an increased risk of exposure to Toxocara roundworms after recent warm and wet weather. Dogs could contract toxocariasis over the ...

and colleagues measured the levels of a broad variety of different lipid mediators in the brains of mice infected with either the dog roundworm Toxocara canis or the cat roundworm Toxocara cati.