2024年11月5日 · Raccoon roundworm is an intestinal parasitic infection caused by Baylisascaris worms. You can get raccoon roundworm when you consume infectious eggs, usually accidentally. Infections in people are rare, but the parasite can infect other animals, like dogs.

2024年11月5日 · Raccoons are the primary, or definitive, host of Baylisascaris procyonis, a roundworm. Raccoons become infected with Baylisascaris in one of the following two ways: By eating infectious eggs during foraging, feeding, and grooming. By eating rodents, rabbits, and birds that are infected with the larvae of Baylisascaris.

2024年11月5日 · Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris Infection) Baylisascaris infection is caused by a roundworm found in raccoons. It is also called Raccoon Roundworm and can infect people, dogs, and other animals.

Raccoons can be infected by ingesting embryonated eggs from the environment . Many mammals and birds can act as paratenic hosts for this parasite: eggs ingested by these hosts hatch and larvae penetrate the gut wall and migrate into various tissues where they encyst .

2024年11月5日 · Raccoon roundworm can be prevented by avoiding contact with raccoons or their feces. Wash your hands after working or playing outdoors. Take steps to discourage raccoons from living in or around your home.

2024年11月5日 · Humans are a paratenic (intermediate) host, meaning that infection by larval stages of the parasite can occur but the parasite does not complete its lifecycle in the host. In paratenic hosts, adult worms do not develop in the intestine, and …

2016年9月9日 · Although raccoons are typically asymptomatic when infected with the parasite, the larval form of Baylisascaris procyonis can result in fatal human disease or severe neurologic outcomes if not treated rapidly.

2020年3月17日 · The raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) is a gastrointestinal parasitic nematode of the raccoon (Procyon lotor). It is common in its native range in North America, where its prevalence in raccoons can reach 82% .

[Shira Shafir] Baylisascaris procyonis is the common intestinal roundworm of raccoons. Raccoons all over the United States can be infected with this worm and they have no symptoms of infection. When they have the worms in their intestine, they can pass millions of eggs into the environment every day in their poop.

2011年2月8日 · Raccoons harbor a wide variety of infectious agents and parasites, many of which are zoonotic. One of these, the raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea) , is a well-known cause of visceral, ocular, and neural larva migrans in humans and other animals (1–3).