Toxocariasis - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Toxocariasis;

NCIt definition : A parasitic infection caused by Toxocara. Humans are infected by the larvae of Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati from dogs and cats respectively. Most cases remain asymptomatic. The parasites may affect the eye, causing diminished vision, or other major organs, causing hepatomegaly, eosinophilia, wheezing, and coughing.;

Alternative definition : NICHD: An infection that is caused by the larvae of Toxocara canis (dogs) or Toxocara cati (cats), most cases of which remain asymptomatic. The larvae can infect the eye, causing diminished vision, or other major organs, causing hepatomegaly, eosinophilia, coughing, and wheezing.;

Details

Origin ID

C85194;

UMLS CUI

C0040553;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Infection caused by Toxocara (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- toxocariasis [DO Concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Toxocariasis [PASCAL descriptor]
- Toxocariasis [ICD-9 code]
- Toxocariasis [ICD-11 Category]
- Toxocariasis [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Toxocariasis [ORDO Disease]
- Visceral larva migrans [ICD-10 Sub-category]
- Visceral larva migrans [ICD-10 Sub-category (who)]
- Visceral larva migrans [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Visceral larva migrans syndrome (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- larva migrans, visceral [MeSH concept]
- larva migrans, visceral [MeSH Descriptor]
- toxocariasis [MeSH Descriptor]
- toxocariasis [MeSH concept]
- toxocariasis [SNOMED Notion]
- visceral larva migrans syndrome [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Infection caused by Toxocara (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Toxocara infection [MedDRA LLT]
- Toxocariasis [ORDO Disease]
- Toxocariasis [ICD-9 code]
- Toxocariasis [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- toxocariasis [MeSH concept]
- toxocariasis [MeSH Descriptor]
- toxocariasis [SNOMED Notion]
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- NICHD Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Terminology [NCIt concept]

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