"Toxocariasis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Infection by round worms of the genus TOXOCARA, usually found in wild and domesticated cats and dogs and foxes, except for the larvae, which may produce visceral and ocular larva migrans in man.
| Descriptor ID |
D014120
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.335.349.868 C03.335.508.700.100.868 C03.701.377.868 C22.674.377.868
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Toxocariasis".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Toxocariasis".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Toxocariasis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Toxocariasis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Toxocariasis" by people in Profiles.
-
Review of Toxocariasis at a Children's Hospital Prompting Need for Public Health Interventions. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 10 01; 42(10):862-866.
-
Global prevalence of Toxocara infection in cats. Adv Parasitol. 2020; 109:615-639.
-
Global and regional seroprevalence estimates for human toxocariasis: A call for action. Adv Parasitol. 2020; 109:275-290.
-
Toxocariasis: A neglected infection for the Anthropocene epoch. Adv Parasitol. 2020; 109:879-883.
-
Global prevalence of Toxocara infection in dogs. Adv Parasitol. 2020; 109:561-583.
-
Seroprevalence estimates for toxocariasis in people worldwide: A?systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 12; 13(12):e0007809.
-
Human toxocariasis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 01; 18(1):e14-e24.
-
Identification of immunodominant antigens for the laboratory diagnosis of toxocariasis. Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Dec; 20(12):1787-96.
-
Development of a Luminex Bead Based Assay for Diagnosis of Toxocariasis Using Recombinant Antigens Tc-CTL-1 and Tc-TES-26. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015; 9(10):e0004168.
-
Index of suspicion. Pediatr Rev. 2014 Nov; 35(11):487-92.