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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(9):2675-2676; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl224
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Nephrotic syndrome as a manifestation of Toxocara canis infection

Email: pzotos@endo.gr

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Sir,

Toxocariasis is the clinical term describing infection in the human host with either Toxocara canis or less commonly, T. cati, both of which are ascaride nematodes, normally parasitic for non-human host species. There are two main syndromes associated with toxocariasis, visceral larva migrans (VLM) and ocular larva migrans (OLM).

We describe nephrotic syndrome in a 41-year-old woman coincident with T. canis infection. The relationship between T. canis infection and glomerular disease is still unclear. There are very few reports of nephrotic syndrome associated with toxocariasis, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Panagiotis G. Zotos, Erasmia Psimenou, Maria Roussou, Sofoklis Kontogiannis, Athanasios Panoutsopoulos and Athanasios-Meletios Dimopoulos

University of Athens School of Medicine Alexandra Hospital Department of Clinical Therapeutics Athens, Greece


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