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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
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description 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 Michigan in over three years. He was found to have a 7 cm long subconjunctival roundworm, which was ultimately extracted. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: With increasing global temperatures, ocular dirofilariasis is being introduced in more northern climates and should be included in the differential diagnosis in areas previously isolated from these vector-borne parasites.
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spelling pubmed-57221612017-12-19 Ocular dirofilariasis: Ophthalmic implication of climate change on vector-borne parasites Boss, Joseph D. Sosne, Gabriel Tewari, Asheesh Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep Case report 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 Michigan in over three years. He was found to have a 7 cm long subconjunctival roundworm, which was ultimately extracted. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: With increasing global temperatures, ocular dirofilariasis is being introduced in more northern climates and should be included in the differential diagnosis in areas previously isolated from these vector-borne parasites. Elsevier 2017-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5722161/ /pubmed/29260070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2017.04.004 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Ocular dirofilariasis: Ophthalmic implication of climate change on vector-borne parasites
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722161/
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