1.The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam.
Nguyen Van DE ; Thanh Hoa LE ; Jong Yil CHAI
The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2012;50(3):221-223
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.
Adult
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Animals
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Cluster Analysis
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Electron Transport Complex IV/genetics
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Eye Diseases/*parasitology/*pathology
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Humans
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Male
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Microscopy
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Phylogeny
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Spirurida Infections/*diagnosis/*parasitology/pathology
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Thelazioidea/anatomy & histology/genetics/*isolation & purification
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Vietnam