Publication: Human Ocular Thelaziasis: A Case Report
Date
2021
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Publisher
Nepal Medical Association
Abstract
Abstract:
Thelaziasis is a zoonotic disease which affects the eye of domestic and wild carnivores caused by the nematode Thelazia. It is transmitted to humans by secretophagous arthropod-borne zoophilic nonbiting flies of the family Drosophilidae. Human thelaziasis is rare and occurs in poor socio-economic families of the rural locations where people live in close proximity with animals. A one and halfyear-old was presented to the outpatient ophthalmology clinic after her mother noticed a whitish, thread-like worm in her right eye. A total of four worms were mechanically removed from her right eye. All the collected worms were gravid female nematodes of Thelazia species. The present case of human ocular thelaziasis from Palpa, Nepal is presented for its rarity.
Description
Anjila Pal
Department of Microbiology, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Alok Atreya
Department of Forensic Medicine, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Nabina Maharjan
Department of Microbiology, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Monika Mahat
Department of Ophthalmology, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Rabin Bom
Department of General Practice & Emergency Medicine, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal
Keywords
Nepal, ocular infection, Thelazia, zoonoses