PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | visceral larva migrans |
| Phenotype | C0004096|asthma |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23278881 | (3) the presence of anti-ascaris ige may be a marker for exposures to closely related zoonotic infections such as a. suum and toxocara canis with which a. lumbricoides shares extensive immunological cross-reactivity 48. human infections with toxocara and a. suum, causing visceral larva migrans, have been associated with asthma-like symptoms 49, 50, 51. overall, our observations point to the importance of the immunological response to a. lumbricoides rather than the presence per se of geohelminths, as an important determinant of wheeze in our study population. |
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