[Toxocariasis: a case report]

Abstract

The Authors present a case of infestation by Toxocara canis occurring in a eighteen months' child. A first time he was hospitalised for wheezing, reported hypereosinophilia and a thoracic X-ray with a soften congestion in the right lung's base. Two months later he was admitted to hospital for the persistence of high level of eosinocyte. The clinical tests and the patient's history explain the first symptoms like the passage of the Toxocara's larvae in the lungs, but don't justify the anomalous behaviour of eosinocytes. In fact the hypereosinophilia was present two months before the admission in our Department, but two tests, executed during the first stay in hospital, didn't show abnormality. A few months after, another blood's sample showed an high level of eosinocytes and, in the same time, a new control of thoracic X-ray, didn't show any change in the image.