Human Gongylonema infection in a resident of New York City

Citation
Ml. Eberhard et C. Busillo, Human Gongylonema infection in a resident of New York City, AM J TROP M, 61(1), 1999, pp. 51-52
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
ISSN journal
00029637 → ACNP
Volume
61
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
51 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9637(199907)61:1<51:HGIIAR>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
A case of infection with Gongylonema is described in a 41-year-old woman li ving in New York City. The patient sought medical attention with the compla int of a sensation of 1-year duration of something moving in her mouth. On two occasions she removed worms from her mouth, once from her lip, once fro m the gum. One of the specimens submitted for examination was an adult fema le Gongylonema. It is not possible to say whether the infection was acquire d in New York City, or elsewhere, since the patient traveled frequently to Mississippi to visit relatives. As cases of delusional parasitosis continue to increase, clinicians and laboratorians alike need to be alert to the po ssibility that foreign objects removed from the mouth, or elsewhere, may in deed represent unusual parasitic infections, and that these objects should be examined before being discarded.