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Ocular dirofilariasis: Ophthalmic implication of climate change on vector-borne parasites

PURPOSE: To describe a geographically rare case of ophthalmic dirofilariasis. OBSERVATIONS: An 81-year-old male of good socioeconomic status living in the state of Michigan in the United States, presented to the eye clinic with a painful red left eye. He had not traveled outside of the state of Mich...

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Autores principales: Boss, Joseph D., Sosne, Gabriel, Tewari, Asheesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29260070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2017.04.004