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| Toxocaridae | |
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| Toxocara embryonated eggs | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Ascaridida |
| Family: | Toxocaridae |
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The Toxocaridae are a zoonotic family of parasitic nematodes that infect canids and felids and which cause toxocariasis in humans (visceral larva migrans and ocular larva migrans).[1] The worms are unable to reproduce in humans.
Notable species include:
- Toxocara canis, which infects dogs.
- Toxocara cati, which infects cats and lacks intermediate hosts.
- Toxascaris leonina, which infects mostly cats, but also dogs.
- Toxocara malayasiensis, which infects cats.[2]
- Toxocara vitulorum, which infects buffalo and cattle.[3]
- ^ Fan CK, Holland CV, Loxton K, Barghouth U (July 2015). "Cerebral Toxocariasis: Silent Progression to Neurodegenerative Disorders?". Clin Microbiol Rev. 28 (3): 663–86. doi:10.1128/CMR.00106-14. PMC 4462679. PMID 26062575.
- ^ Despommier, Dickson (April 2003). "Toxocariasis: clinical aspects, epidemiology, medical ecology, and molecular aspects". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 16 (2): 265–72. doi:10.1128/CMR.16.2.265-272.2003. PMC 153144. PMID 12692098.
- ^ Uzal, Francisco A.; Plattner, Brandon L.; Hostetter, Jesse M. (2016). "Chapter 1. Alimentary system. Gastrointestinal helminthosis. Toxacara vitulorum". In Maxie, M. Grant (ed.). Jubb, Kennedy & Palmer's Pathology of Domestic Animals Volume 2 (6th ed.). St Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-7020-5318-4.