The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam
2012; Korean Society for Parasitology; Volume: 50; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.221
ISSN1738-0006
AutoresNguyen Van De, Thanh Hoa Le, Jong-Yil Chai,
Tópico(s)Parasites and Host Interactions
ResumoA 26-year-old man residing in a village of Thai Nguyen Province, North Vietnam, visited the Thai Nguyen Provincial Hospital in July 2008. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and extracted 5 small nematode worms by himself half a day before visiting the hospital. Two more worms were extracted from his left eye by a medical doctor, and they were morphologically observed and genetically analyzed on the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene. The worms were 1 male and 1 female, and genetically identical with those of Thelazia callipaeda. By the present study, the presence of human T. callipaeda infection is first reported in Vietnam. Key words: Thelazia callipaeda, oriental eyeworm, eye, human case, Vietnam
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