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Toxocariasis is an illness of humans caused by larvae (immature worms) of either the dog roundworm (Toxocara canis) the cat roundworm (Toxocara cati) or the fox (Toxocara canis). Toxocariasis is often called visceral larva migrans (VLM). Depending on geographic location degree of eosinophilia eye and/or pulmonary signs the terms ocular larva migrans (OLM) Weingarten’s disease Frimodt-Møller’s syndrome and eosiniphilic pseudoleukemia are applied to toxocariasis.
