Lagochilascaris minor infection in Surinam: report of a case

ABSTRACT

In 1965 a 10-year-old Bushnegro girl was hospitalized in Paramaribo for a tumor of the neck. The disease began with a small pustule on the neck, accompanied by fever, approximately 6 months before the patient was hospitalized. The pustule was the size of a hen's egg when she came to the hospital and it developed into an abcess without much discharge. Four months later the diagnosis, Lagochilascaris minor infection, was made. The patient was then treated with thiabendazole, without success. Irradiation by x-ray to kill the eggs was unsuccessful. After a short period of dyspnea the girl died. This happened about a year after the first onset of the symptoms