Ocular parastrongyliasis (=angiostrongyliasis): probable first report of human infection from a patient in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
What is considered to be the first case of human parastrongyliasis (angiostrongyliasis) worldwide is described from a patient in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1925. It also predates the description of the parasite in humans by Chen (1935).
Dissanaike
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AS
ellstandiss@lanka.ccom.lk
Cross
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JH
D000328:Adult; D000801:Angiostrongylus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017185:Angiostrongylus cantonensis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity; D013188:Sri Lanka / Q000453:epidemiology; D017206:Strongylida Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000469:parasitology