The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam

A 26-year-old man residing in a village of Thai Nguyen Province, North Vietnam, visited the Thai Nguyen Provincial Hospital in July 2008. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and extracted 5 small nematode worms by himself half a day before visiting the hospital. Two more worms were extract...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: De, Nguyen Van, Le, Thanh Hoa, Chai, Jong-Yil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22949749
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.221
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Sumario:A 26-year-old man residing in a village of Thai Nguyen Province, North Vietnam, visited the Thai Nguyen Provincial Hospital in July 2008. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and extracted 5 small nematode worms by himself half a day before visiting the hospital. Two more worms were extracted from his left eye by a medical doctor, and they were morphologically observed and genetically analyzed on the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene. The worms were 1 male and 1 female, and genetically identical with those of Thelazia callipaeda. By the present study, the presence of human T. callipaeda infection is first reported in Vietnam.

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