• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.181-191
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• 2001

Toxocariasis is produced by the migration of Toxocara canis larvae into the extra- intestinal tissue of unnatural hosts or natural hosts under unsuitable conditions. Soil contaminated with T. canis embryonated eggs in the main source of infection of man. In the present study, ELISA with T. canis adult crude antigen was used for determination the seroprevalence of T. canis infection in two areas of Korea. It was found that antibody positive rate was 15.7% in Keoje- Island. In the analysis according to sex, female group presented significantly higher positive rate than male group (23.8% in female and 7.4% in male, p<0.05). In Inchon city, the positive rate was 13.1%, and there was no significant difference between female and male group. Immunoblot analysis was performed to some positive patient sera. As the results, 9 cases of 15 cases were positive in Keoje-Island, and 22 cases of 27cases were positive in Inchon city by immunoblotting.