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. 2012 Feb 28;6(2):e1382. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001382

Figure 2. Yearly internal records of the IPK on the serodiagnosis of individuals suspected of human toxocariasis.

Figure 2

Proportion of positive samples in a commercial TES-based ELISA (Diagnostic Automation, Inc., Calabasas, CA) performed by the Department of Parasitology of the IPK. Samples were from patients suspected of OLM or VLM and sent by clinicians across the country for serological confirmation of toxocariasis. No data are available for 2005 and 2008 due to inaccessibility of the commercial ELISA because of the trade embargo with the country. Serum samples were tested anonymously, and information on origin or on the differentiation between suspicion of OLM or VLM syndromes is not available, except for 2003 where all samples analyzed originated from the Ophthalmologic Institute “Ramón Pando Ferrer” and thus were suspicious of OLM. Follow-up of patients was not conducted by the IPK, preventing the confirmation of the suspected diagnosis. aData from 2009 are limited to samples received up to the beginning of August 2009.