We are reporting a case of an eye lesion caused by an adult Brugia malayi. The patient was a 3-year-old Chinese boy from Kemaman District, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. He presented with a one week history of redness and palpebral swelling of his right eye. He claimed that he could see a worm in his right eye beneath the conjunctiva. He had no history of traveling overseas and the family kep...

Among the sources of homoeopathic medicines vegetable kingdom is major source. Compositae family one largest plant giving more than 60 to homoeopathy. Plants compositae are important in herbal and folk medicine since antiquity. In system medicine, from Asteraceae were used for shock, spasms, convulsions, traumas, bruises, liver blood disorders, respiratory problems, fever, sepsis worm infestati...

During the summer of 1938 one of us (J. S. A.), while engaged in experimental work with sheep infected with the stomach-worm, Haemonchus contortus, became interested in making a study of the nature of the anemia produced by these nematodes. The examination of the feces of sheep a few days after artificial infection with stomach-worm larvae revealed the presence of blood. Quantities of blood wer...

The tissue pathology of the intestinal lining of a pheasant crow (Centropus sinensis) invaded by an acanthocephalan (Centrorhynchus globirostris) was studied from prepared slides. Prominent histopathology was evident viewing the infected tissue. There is extensive damage to the intestinal layers of the pheasant crow initiated by the multi hooked proboscis of the worm. The worm would often work ...

A group of 12 10-month-old, worm-free Merino lambs were given a single injection of disophenol at 10 mg/kg. This group and another group of 12 worm-free lambs were infested with infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus 1-3 times a week with a maximum dose of 4000/week from 0-91 days. From 95-168 days the dose was increased to a maximum of 6000/week. Every 7 days faeces were examined for worm eg...

SNAP® 4Dx® Plus (IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, ME) is a commercially available in-office test kit for the simultaneous detection of Dirofilaria immitis antigen and antibodies to Anaplasma phagocytophilum, A. platys, Borrelia burgdorferi, Ehrlichia canis, and E. ewingii in blood, plasma, or serum of dogs. AccuPlexTM4 test (ANTECH Diagnostics®, Irvine, CA) is a recently launched reference labora...

introduction ophthalmomyiasis is a rare disorder that is caused by invasion of dipterous larvae to necrotic tissues. case presentation an 80-year-old woman with invasive basal cell carcinoma (bcc) presented anabnormal growth of worm in her eye. she had ophthalmomyiasis caused by lucilia sericata larva in here nucleated eye. l. sericata is common all over the temperate and tropical regions, main...

Many investigations have been devoted to the solution of the problem of the mechanism by which the hookworm exerts its deleterious effects. There is no doubt that the answer to the question is as complex as the syndrome produced by the hookworm. Loss of blood due to the sucking worm, increased by the prolonged oozing from the abandoned bites in jejunum and duodenum, is certainly one factor conc...