Korean J Parasitol.
1982 Jun;20(1):60-64. 10.3347/kjp.1982.20.1.60.
A case of human thelaziasis in Korea
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Han Yang University, Seoul 133, Korea.
- 2Department of Parasitology and Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Korea.
- KMID: 1720228
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.1982.20.1.60
Abstract
- This paper deals with the 11th case of human thelaziasis in Korea. The patient was a 25-year-old woman with complaints of foreign body and itching sensation of rihgt eye, who had lived in Seoul. The slender milky-white nematodes extracted from lower conjunctival sac, one male and one female in respect, were confirmed as Thelazia callipaeda Railliet and Henry, 1910.
