Pal, AnjilaAtreya, AlokMaharjan, NabinaMahat, MonikaBom, Rabin2026-02-162026-02-162021https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/4770Anjila 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, NepalAbstract: 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.en-USNepalocular infectionThelaziazoonosesArticle