Dracunculiasis: Two Cases with Rare Presentations

Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm Disease) is a debilitating disease caused by parasite Dracunculus medinensis. The condition is not life threatening, but causes significant morbidity. Patients may be sick for several months. Dracunculiasis has been claimed to be eradicated in India since 1999. We report...

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Autor principal: Gulanikar, Anirudha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23378712
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.104918
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description Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm Disease) is a debilitating disease caused by parasite Dracunculus medinensis. The condition is not life threatening, but causes significant morbidity. Patients may be sick for several months. Dracunculiasis has been claimed to be eradicated in India since 1999. We report two patients with calcified guinea worm. Both patient required surgical removal of calcified worm. The cases document that the parasite can cause chronic recurrent nodules and ulcers.
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spelling pubmed-35601702013-02-01 Dracunculiasis: Two Cases with Rare Presentations Gulanikar, Anirudha J Cutan Aesthet Surg Case Report Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm Disease) is a debilitating disease caused by parasite Dracunculus medinensis. The condition is not life threatening, but causes significant morbidity. Patients may be sick for several months. Dracunculiasis has been claimed to be eradicated in India since 1999. We report two patients with calcified guinea worm. Both patient required surgical removal of calcified worm. The cases document that the parasite can cause chronic recurrent nodules and ulcers. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3560170/ /pubmed/23378712 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.104918 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery 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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title_full Dracunculiasis: Two Cases with Rare Presentations
title_fullStr Dracunculiasis: Two Cases with Rare Presentations
title_full_unstemmed Dracunculiasis: Two Cases with Rare Presentations
title_short Dracunculiasis: Two Cases with Rare Presentations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23378712
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.104918
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