ocular dirofilariasis, a case report
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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. filarial worms are transmitted to humans through invertebrate biological vectors such as certain species of mosquitoes. the present report describes a peculiar case of ocular dirofilariasis in a 49-year-old man resident in iran.
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iranian journal of parasitologyجلد ۵، شماره ۳، صفحات ۶۴-۶۸
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