The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam |
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Authors: | Nguyen Van De Thanh Hoa Le Jong-Yil Chai |
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Affiliation: | Department of Parasitology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. |
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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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Keywords: | Thelazia callipaeda oriental eyeworm eye human case Vietnam |
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