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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Brief Report
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
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author Sah, Ranjit
Khadka, Shusila
Adhikari, Mahesh
Niraula, Reema
Shah, Apoorva
Khatri, Anadi
Donovan, Suzanne
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description 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 infant presented with conjunctivitis, and his visual acuity and dilated fundal examination were normal. A total of 6 worms were removed for identification. Collected nematodes were identified based on morphological keys as Thelazia callipaeda. The patient’s symptoms improved after removal of the nematodes.
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spelling pubmed-61896302018-10-22 Human Thelaziasis: Emerging Ocular Pathogen in Nepal Sah, Ranjit Khadka, Shusila Adhikari, Mahesh Niraula, Reema Shah, Apoorva Khatri, Anadi Donovan, Suzanne Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report 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 infant presented with conjunctivitis, and his visual acuity and dilated fundal examination were normal. A total of 6 worms were removed for identification. Collected nematodes were identified based on morphological keys as Thelazia callipaeda. The patient’s symptoms improved after removal of the nematodes. Oxford University Press 2018-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6189630/ /pubmed/30349847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy237 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy237
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