Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India

We report an unusual case of adult Loa loa infection in the anterior chamber of the eye of a 65-year-old female from rural area of Jharkhand, India, with no history of travel to endemic places but the presence of microfilaria of Loa loa in blood. Loiasis is endemic to African countries, with few spo...

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Autores principales: Kumari, Varsha, Ahmad, Sofia, Singh, Aradhana, Banerjee, Tuhina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31867260
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_227_18
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description We report an unusual case of adult Loa loa infection in the anterior chamber of the eye of a 65-year-old female from rural area of Jharkhand, India, with no history of travel to endemic places but the presence of microfilaria of Loa loa in blood. Loiasis is endemic to African countries, with few sporadic cases affecting the Indian population. However, in none of the reports, microfilaremia was detected. This atypical feature in this case adds to the epidemiological variations in parasitic presentations in nonendemic regions.
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spelling pubmed-69052452019-12-20 Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India Kumari, Varsha Ahmad, Sofia Singh, Aradhana Banerjee, Tuhina Tzu Chi Med J Case Report We report an unusual case of adult Loa loa infection in the anterior chamber of the eye of a 65-year-old female from rural area of Jharkhand, India, with no history of travel to endemic places but the presence of microfilaria of Loa loa in blood. Loiasis is endemic to African countries, with few sporadic cases affecting the Indian population. However, in none of the reports, microfilaremia was detected. This atypical feature in this case adds to the epidemiological variations in parasitic presentations in nonendemic regions. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6905245/ /pubmed/31867260 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_227_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Tzu Chi Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India
title Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India
title_full Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India
title_fullStr Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India
title_full_unstemmed Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India
title_short Presence of adult Loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: A rare presentation from India
title_sort presence of adult loa loa in the anterior chamber of the eye along with microfilaremia from nonendemic region: a rare presentation from india
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31867260
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_227_18
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