Korean J Parasitol.
2012 Sep;50(3):221-223. 10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.221.
The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam
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- 1Department of Parasitology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. ngvdeyhn@gmail.com
- 2Department of Immunology, Institute of Bio-Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
- 3Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
- KMID: 1387408
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.221
Abstract
- A 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.
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