Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis

Human ocular infestation by live filarial worm is a rare occurrence and has been reported mostly form South-East Asia. It involves the eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea, anterior chamber and uvea. No case of intravitreal Brugian microfilaria / adult worm has been found by Medline search. Here we report a...

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Autores principales: Rao, Nageswar G, Mahapatra, Sontosh K, Pattnayak, Sabyasachi, Pattnaik, Kaumudee
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18158414
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author Rao, Nageswar G
Mahapatra, Sontosh K
Pattnayak, Sabyasachi
Pattnaik, Kaumudee
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Mahapatra, Sontosh K
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description Human ocular infestation by live filarial worm is a rare occurrence and has been reported mostly form South-East Asia. It involves the eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea, anterior chamber and uvea. No case of intravitreal Brugian microfilaria / adult worm has been found by Medline search. Here we report a case of live intravitreal adult Brugian filaria, where the parasite was successfully removed by pars plana vitrectomy. Identification of the worm was done by light microscopy and confirmed by immuno chromatographic test.
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spelling pubmed-26360632009-02-10 Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis Rao, Nageswar G Mahapatra, Sontosh K Pattnayak, Sabyasachi Pattnaik, Kaumudee Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Report Human ocular infestation by live filarial worm is a rare occurrence and has been reported mostly form South-East Asia. It involves the eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea, anterior chamber and uvea. No case of intravitreal Brugian microfilaria / adult worm has been found by Medline search. Here we report a case of live intravitreal adult Brugian filaria, where the parasite was successfully removed by pars plana vitrectomy. Identification of the worm was done by light microscopy and confirmed by immuno chromatographic test. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2636063/ /pubmed/18158414 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rao, Nageswar G
Mahapatra, Sontosh K
Pattnayak, Sabyasachi
Pattnaik, Kaumudee
Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis
title Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis
title_full Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis
title_fullStr Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis
title_full_unstemmed Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis
title_short Intravitreal live adult Brugian filariasis
title_sort intravitreal live adult brugian filariasis
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18158414
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