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HYGIENE, EPIDEMIOLOGY, MEDICAL ECOLOGYInternational Medical Journal, Vol. 11., Iss. 1, 2005, P. 133−135.
PECULIARITIES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL COURSE OF TOXOCARIASIS IN CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS
Kharkiv Medical Academy of Post−graduate Education, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Modern ideas about the etiology, factors of transmission, the peculiarities of the clinical course and the nervous system involvement in toxocariasis are featured. The role of dogs as disseminators of toxocara ova and the source of human infection is shown.