The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam
The Korean Journal of Parasitology
; : 221-223, 2012.
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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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WPRIM
Main subject:
Phylogeny
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Vietnam
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Thelazioidea
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Cluster Analysis
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Spirurida Infections
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Electron Transport Complex IV
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Eye Diseases
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Microscopy
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Parasitology
Year:
2012
Document type:
Article