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Neurológia pre prax 6/2008
NEUROTOXOCARIASIS IN A CHILD
The authors present a case of a 4-year-old child with a neurological form of toxocariasis with the larvae and numerous inflammatory infiltrates being located in various parts of the brain. Attention is paid to diagnosing and severe clinical symptoms at a high dose of embryonated Toxocara ova, resulting in intracranial primoinfection with central quadriparesis and parainfectious myocarditis.
Keywords: neurological infection, larval toxocariasis, MRI, diagnosing.
