title: Onchocerciasis in Israel.
abstract: A 15-year-old boy with onchocerciasis had severe generalized pruritus of five months' duration. He had been born and raised in Ethiopia and had emigrated to Israel one year earlier. A biopsy specimen of an area of depigmentation on the right thigh disclosed microfilaria of Onchocerca volvulus in the dermis. The discovery of an unusual disease in a nonendemic area is an example of the increased complexity of differential diagnosis resulting from the ease of travel from one geographic region to another.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004049:Diethylcarbamazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005002:Ethiopia / Q000208:ethnology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008842:Microfilariae; D009855:Onchocerciasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000635:transmission; D011537:Pruritus / Q000209:etiology*; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy / Q000635:transmission
chemical_list: D004049:Diethylcarbamazine