Updated evidence of the association between toxocariasis and epilepsy: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To gain further insight on the association between human toxocariasis and epilepsy in light of the new evidence in the last years.

Methods

A systematic review was conducted without date and language restriction in the following electronic databases: MEDLINE (PubMed), Ingenta Connect, Science Direct (Elsevier), RefDoc, Scopus, HighWire, Scielo and the database of the Institute of Neuroepidemiology and Tropical Neurology of the Limoges University (IENT). Two investigators independently conducted the search up to November 2017. A pooled odds ratio (OR) was estimated using a random effects model. Meta-regression was conducted to investigate potential sources of heterogeneity.

Results

Database search produced 204 publications. Eleven case-control studies were inc

SUBMITTER: Luna J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070292 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature