Baylisascariasis is a parasitic infection caused by Baylisascaris procyonis, a large nematodes of the order Ascaridida. The full clinical spectrum of human baylisascariasis includes visceral larva migrans, neural larva migrans, and ocular larva migrans. Neural larva migrans can lead to severe neurologic disease such as eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans.
Category
Parasitic infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Parasitic diseases
Helminthiases
Diseases due to nematodes
1F6Y Other specified diseases due to nematodes
H01137 Baylisascariasis
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Parasitic infections (animals)
Infections caused by nematodes
H01137 Baylisascariasis
Pathogen
Baylisascaris procyonis
Comment
Definitive host: North American raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Wise ME, Sorvillo FJ, Shafir SC, Ash LR, Berlin OG
Title
Severe and fatal central nervous system disease in humans caused by Baylisascaris procyonis, the common roundworm of raccoons: a review of current literature.
