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KMID : 0425120120500030221
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2012 Volume.50 No. 3 p.221 ~ p.223
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The First Human Case of Thelazia callipaeda Infection in Vietnam
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Nguyen Van De
Thanh Hoa Le
Chai Jong-Yil
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Abstract
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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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KEYWORD
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Thelazia callipaeda, oriental eyeworm, eye, human case, Vietnam
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