%0 Journal Article
%T Toxocara canis y asma bronquial
%A L¨®pez
%A Mar¨ªa de los ¨¢ngeles
%A Bojanich
%A Mar¨ªa V.
%A Jacobacci
%A Juan M.
%A Sercic
%A Clara
%A Michelini
%A Alicia
%A Alonso
%A Jos¨¦ M.
%J Medicina (Buenos Aires)
%D 2010
%I Fundaci¨®n Revista Medicina
%X in order to evaluate the association between the infection by toxocara canis and the symptoms of asthma in children from a subtropical region with high prevalence of toxocariasis, 47 asthmatic children and 53 non-asthmatics as a control group were studied. a complete physical examination was performed and clinical and epidemiological data were registered. in asthmatic children the frequency and severity of symptoms were classified in grades i to iv. the presence of anti-toxocara canis antibodies in both groups was evaluated employing a solid phase elisa method with excretion/secretion antigens, and total ig e was also measured. results showed a total seropositivity of 55%, 57.4% in children with asthma and 52.8% in the control group. among asthmatics with severe symptoms (grade ii, iii and iv), there was a 67.7% of seropositivity while in children with symptoms of grade i there was a 37.5% (p = 0.0470). the infection with t. canis could act as a co-factor increasing the severity of the symptoms of bronchial asthma.
%K toxocara canis
%K asthma
%K children
%K antibodies
%K enzyme immunoassay.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0025-76802010000100014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en