Ocular parasitic diseases: a review on toxocariasis and diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis.

ABSTRACT

Parasitic infections may damage various ocular tissues, thereby causing visual dysfunction. In 1950, Wilder described the first case in which larval forms of nematodal intestinal roundworms (Ascaridoidea Ascaris, Toxocara, Ancylostoma, Necator, and Strongyloides) were implicated as a cause of intraocular disease. This review focuses on two disorders associated with parasitic infections ocular toxocariasis and diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis.