Adult Filarial Worm of Unknown Species Removed from the Skin of a Human Subject
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worms under the left conjunctiva of a Jewess who had suffered from elephantiasis for four years. An attempt to obtain the worms for examination failed, one disappearing into the tissues during section and the other being lost in the process of extraction in some unaccountable manner. Several members of the patient's family were infected with Wuchereria bancrofti and the presumption is that these worms were adult IF. bancrofti. Charles (1920) reported the removal of a living adult filaria from the eye of an adult male, the specimen being later identified by Sewell as Filaria conjunctivas Addario, 1885. Das Gupta (1921) reported the removal at Ramporehaut of two live worms from a cyst in the outer canthus of a Mohammedan. These
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