title: [Toxocariasis respiratory manifestations in cases hospitalized in the Paediatric Diseases Clinic of Iaşi, between 2005-2008].
abstract: The authors present the results of retrospective epidemiological, clinical and laboratory diagnosis on toxocariasis cases hospitalized in the Pediatric Diseases Clinic of Iaşi, between January 2005-June 2008.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included a number of 228 children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Respiratory manifestations were present in 184 children: 105 boys (46.05%) and 79 girls (34.64%), with a slight advance of the rural environment (44.29%). The age distribution highlighted a predominance of 1-5 years of age (65.76%). Respiratory manifestations were fever, coughing, wheezing, asthma, infections of respiratory pathways, pneumonia. The distribution of toxocariasis in children patients in Moldavia, Romania, highlighted a predominance in Iaşi. The children with respiratory manifestations had hypereosinophilia associated with hyperleucocytosis. All the patients were serologically confirmed with toxocariasis. The children responded well to treatment with albendazole.
authors.affiliation: Disciplina de Parazitologie, Facultatea de Medicină, Universitatea de Medicină si Farmacie"Gr.T. Popa" Iaşi.
authors.forename: Roxana-Gabriela
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Bahnea
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cojocaru
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ripă
authors.forename: Mihaela Cătălina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Luca
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivans
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luca
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000818:Animals; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003371:Cough / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D015995:Prevalence; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017166:Toxocara canis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014120:Toxocariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole