ON AN INFECTION OF A HUMAN EYE WITH PARASTRONGYLUS (=ANGIOSTRONGYLUS)SP IN SRI-LANKA

Authors
DURETTEDESSET MC CHABAUD AG CASSIM MHS ISMAIL MM PREMARATNE UN ABEYEWICKREME W DISSANAIKE AS
Citation
Mc. Durettedesset et al., ON AN INFECTION OF A HUMAN EYE WITH PARASTRONGYLUS (=ANGIOSTRONGYLUS)SP IN SRI-LANKA, Journal of Helminthology, 67(1), 1993, pp. 69-72
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology,Parasitiology
Journal title
Journal of Helminthology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0022149X
Volume
67
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
69 - 72
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-149X(1993)67:1<69:OAIOAH>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
A metastrongyle worm extracted from the anterior chamber of the right eye of a patient in Sri Lanka belongs to the genus Parastrongylus and probably to a yet undescribed species, related to P. cantonensis well known to infect man. It is mostly a parasite of rodents, wandering in man and unadapted to this host. Evidence for this lack of adaptation a re that the specimen is undergoing necrosis (teratological specimen) a nd is located in an organ with little immunological defences.