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    Diagnóstico de la toxocarosis humana
    (National Institute of Health of Peru, 2010) William H. Roldán; Yrma Espinoza; Pedro Huapaya; Susana Jiménez
    Human toxocarosis is an important parasitic zoonosis caused by larval stages of Toxocara species, the roundworms from dogs and cats. Larval migration through different soft tissues in the human generates several clinical entities in the patient, such as visceral larva migrans, ocular toxocarosis, and neurotoxocarosis. Definitive diagnosis by histopathological methods is very difficult or almost impossible and, nowadays, the diagnosis is usually made by clinical signs/symptoms, epidemiological background of the patient and the use of hematological and immunological tests which finally help to confirm the clinical suspicion of the illness. The purpose of this paper was to update the available knowledge on the use of different tools for both the diagnosis and following up of human toxocarosis.
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    Estudio epidemiológico de hidatidosis comparando los test de ELISA IgE y Western Blot en población de cinco provincias de la Región Lima. 2015
    (National University of San Marcos, 2018) Herman Vildózola; William Gonzales; Yrma Espinoza Blanco; Pedro Huapaya; Susana Jiménez; Mercedes Valenzuela Peña; Cristian Villar Huamán
    ntroduction. Diagnosis of some zoonosis in different provinces from the Lima region, motivated on epidemiological investigation. Objective. To determine the prevalence of hydatidosis (echinococosis) in population from Lima region by ELISA IgE test compared with Western Blot. Methods. 560 sera samples were collected from people living in five provinces of Lima region: Canta (n=180), Huaral (n=55), Yauyos (n=133), Cajatambo (n=32) and Huaura (n=160). Antibodies IgE and IgG were detected by ELISA test and Western Blot respectively. Results. 39 samples were positives to ELISA IgE test (seroprevalence 6,96%) and 33 samples were positives to Western Blot IgG test (seroprevalence 5,89%), with light bands of 8 and 16 kDa. Positive samples proceeded from people of provinces of Canta, Yauyos and Huaura. Concordancy were determined between both tests (kappa index = 0,91). 50% (20/39) of positive subjects are from 25 to 60 years old, while less proportion of positives (1/39) were children under 5 years. Conclusions. ELISA IgE test can be used for the detection of positive person to anti Echinococcus spp. antibody, showing very high concordance with Westrn Blot IgG. Could be used in seroepidemiologic studies.