Baylisascaris procyonis is a parasitic nematode endemic to raccoons (Procyon lotor) that has emerged as a significant cause of larva migrans in a wide range of vertebrate hosts. Adult worms inhabit ...

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Background and epidemiology: Baylisascaris procyonis is an intestinal roundworm commonly found in raccoon feces, with wide distribution across North America. The parasite can cause severe human ...

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A timely letter was published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal shortly after my article on Baylisascaris procyonis was posted two weeks ago. It describes a quite unusual case of the ...

This article was published as a guest post on the blog of the Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases (PKIDs) nonprofit on April 2, 2012. It can be visited here in an edited, shorter form. You can ...

Health officials across California are asking people to stay away from wild animals after two children contracted a brain-eating parasite. A CDC report this week revealed a 14-year-old boy and ...

In the summer of 1998, in a small city that juts out into the Monterey Bay, a boy who was not yet 1-year-old began to act very strangely. He was suddenly irritable, his energy sapped. He seemed to act ...

While two people in Los Angeles County recently were infected with "raccoon roundworm," the infection is rare and doesn't pose a widespread threat, experts said. The parasite that causes the disease, ...