Korean J Parasitol.  1982 Jun;20(1):60-64. 10.3347/kjp.1982.20.1.60.

A case of human thelaziasis in Korea

Affiliations
  • 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.

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.


MeSH Terms

parasitology-helminth-nematoda
Thelazia callipaeda-thelaziasis
case report
eye
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