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Human Thelaziasis: Emerging Ocular Pathogen in Nepal

Thelaziasis is an ocular arthropod-borne, zoonotic disease of the eye infecting the conjunctival sac, lacrimal duct, and lacrimal gland caused by a nematode of the genus Thelazia. We report the first case of human ocular thelaziasis in Nepal in a 6-month-old child from a Rukum district, Nepal. The i...

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Autores principales: Sah, Ranjit, Khadka, Shusila, Adhikari, Mahesh, Niraula, Reema, Shah, Apoorva, Khatri, Anadi, Donovan, Suzanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy237