The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam.
10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.221
- Author:
Nguyen Van DE
1
;
Thanh Hoa LE
;
Jong Yil CHAI
Author Information
1. Department of Parasitology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. ngvdeyhn@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Thelazia callipaeda;
oriental eyeworm;
eye;
human case;
Vietnam
- MeSH:
Adult;
Animals;
Cluster Analysis;
Electron Transport Complex IV/genetics;
Eye Diseases/*parasitology/*pathology;
Humans;
Male;
Microscopy;
Phylogeny;
Spirurida Infections/*diagnosis/*parasitology/pathology;
Thelazioidea/anatomy & histology/genetics/*isolation & purification;
Vietnam
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology
2012;50(3):221-223
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
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.
