title: Long-term follow-up in patients with ocular toxocariasis as measured by ELISA titers.
abstract: Twenty patients with ocular toxocariasis were followed-up with serial elisa titers. Eighty-five percent showed a decrease in serum titers, 10% showed an increase, and 5% were stable. One should not be dissuaded from making the diagnosis clinically of ocular toxocariasis because of low titers, as the patient may have had higher titers previously. In the past, results were reported as positive if a titer of at least 1:32 was present and negative if below this level. Exact titers should be requested, as any positive titer (even as low as 1:2) with clinical correlation is believed to be significant.
mesh_terms: D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D001196:Ascariasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D014119:Toxocara / Q000276:immunology*; D014120:Toxocariasis / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies