Unsuspected cerebral Toxocara infection in a fire victim

Nelson, J.; Frost, J.L.; Schochet, S.S.; Nelson, J; Frost, J.L; Schochet, S.S

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Unsuspected cerebral Toxocara infection in a fire victim

Nelson, J.; Frost, J.L.; Schochet, S.S.

Clinical Neuropathology 9(2): 106-108

1990

ISSN/ISBN: 0722-5091

PMID: 2340653

Document Number: 351291

This report documents cerebral involvement by Toxocara in a child who died in a fire. Although visceral larval migrans caused by Toxocara canis is relatively common, especially in the southern states, cerebral involvement rarely has been documented histologically. Foci of inflammation, consistent with visceral larva migrans, were present in the liver.