A case of penile gnathostomiasis in Thailand.
A living young adult female Gnathostoma spinigerum 1.9 cm in length was extracted from a perforating hole on the left laterodorsal aspect of the proximal part of the inflamed glans penis of a 3-year-old Thai boy, the first such case to be recorded in the literature.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006039:Gnathostoma; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D010409:Penile Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D010413:Penis / Q000473:pathology*