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Ocular Dirofilariasis, a Case Report
Accidental infection with animal filarial worms in humans is a dilemma for clinicians and parasitologists throughout the world. To date a variety of such rare parasitoses have been reported mostly in tropics and subtropics. Human dirofilariasis is among those unusual zoonotic infections that occasionally have been observed in the eye and in subcutaneous areas exhibiting with nodule formation. F...
متن کاملHuman pulmonary dirofilariasis: atypical presentation of a rare disease.
1. Departamento de Diagnóstico por Imagem da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP. 2. Centro de Medicina Diagnóstica Fleury, São Paulo, SP. Address to: Dr. Ricardo Jorge Vital. Dept de Diagnóstico por Imagem/UNIFESP/EPM. R. Napoleão de Barros 800, Vila Clementino, 04024-001 São Paulo, SP. e-mail: [email protected] Recebido para publicação em 22/4/2005 ...
متن کاملA rare case of subconjunctival dirofilariasis by Dirofilaria repens in rural Gujarat
Dirofilariasis is a worldwide zoonotic filariasis with over 782 cases reported so far from different parts of the world. Human dirofilariasis, caused by Dirofilaria repens, have been reported to occur widely throughout Asia, Europe, and Africa. It has not been widely recognized in India, however; several cases have been reported in last few years. There is probably a focus of human infection wi...
متن کاملSac over the sac - a rare case of subcutaneous dirofilariasis over the lacrimal sac area.
INTRODUCTION Dirofilariasis is a rare parasitic infestation in humans. CASE A 33-year-old female from the coastal area presented with a swelling over the right lacrimal sac area. It was clinically diagnosed as a lacrimal abscess and was incised under local anaesthesia. A live coiled worm was found and removed along with the cyst. OBSERVATIONS The worm looked like a thin white thread measuri...
متن کاملPulmonary dirofilariasis: report of a human case.
Dirofilaria immitis (dog heartworm) principally infests canine hosts. However, human pulmonary dirofilariasis is being reported with increasing frequency, and the following case illustrates essential features of the disease. It typically presents as a solitary pulmonary nodule without symptoms and invariably requires pulmonary resection to differentiate it from primary or secondary malignancy.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcw034