Background Over a billion people are infected with Toxocara canis or T. cati , the roundworms of dogs and cats. Historically, T. canis has been considered the main species responsible for human toxocarosis, but as serodiagnosis cannot discriminate between the two species, this remains unresolved. We used pigs as a relevant large animal model for human infection to assess the migratory pattern of T. cati and T. canis . Methods...

A single nucleotide polymorphism on chromosome 4 (SNP TXNIP) has been reported to be associated with roundworm