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DOID:9790 - toxocariasis

Disease Ontology Definition:A parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease that involves zoonotic infection of humans by the larvae of Toxocara canis or Toxocara cati. The larvae invade multiple tissues like liver, heart, lungs, brain, muscle and eyes causing various symptoms including fever, anorexia, weight loss, cough, wheezing, rashes, hepatosplenomegaly, hypereosinophilia and ophthalmologic lesions.

Synonyms: Infection by Toxascaris, Infection by Toxascaris (disorder), Toxocara infection, visceral larva migrans,

Xenbase Genes :

Mondo Disease Ontology (on Monarch Initiative):
MONDO:0005988 - toxocariasis


Other Model Organisms: Alliance, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD

Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s): brain disease (is_a), eye disease (is_a), heart disease (is_a), liver disease (is_a), lung disease (is_a), muscular disease (is_a), parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease (is_a)