Toxocariasis

A cosmopolitan zoonotic disease caused in humans by the accidental ingestion of eggs or larvae of the ascarids <i>Toxocara canis</i> or <i>Toxocara cati</i>, the common round worm of dogs and cats respectively. The infestation can be asymptomatic or can present as visceral larva migrans caused by larval migration through major organs such as liver, lungs or central nervous system (manifesting with fever, cough, hepatomegaly, pneumonia or rarely encephalitis), or as ocular larva migrans caused by larval migration to the eye (manifesting as ocular inflammation and retinal scaring).

Proteinuria

Increased levels of protein in the urine.

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26147636	FEMALE	Child
	Toxocara canis infection: Unusual trigger of systemic lupus erythematosus.
	Levy M, Bourrat E, Baudouin V, Guillem C, Peuchmaur M, Deschenes G, Fila M. Pediatr Int. 2015;57(4):785-8.
	An 8-year-old girl was treated with albendazole therapy for common toxocariasis, but she developed two weeks later, asthenia, fever, infiltrated maculopapular eruption of the face, peripheral vascular disease with necrosis of the fingers and inflammatory anemia with proteinuria.