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1Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 120, Korea. 2Seoul Seventhday Adventist Hospital, Korea.
The 15th case of human thelaziasis is reported from Korea.
The patient was a 15-year-old girl from Seoul. Both of the worms which were removed from her eye were female and were identified by the number of transverse cuticular striations (281, 172 and 162/mm in the oesophageal, middle and posterior portions, respectively), as Thelazia callipaeda.
The patient owned a pet dog ADDITIONAL ABSTRACT: The 15-year-old patient had herself removed a worm from one eye.
Two worms were identified morphologically as Thelazia callipaeda. The source of infection was uncertain, but the patient was known to have close contact with a dog. The authors refer to 14 previously reported cases of thelaziasis in Korea.
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