title: Human ocular sparganosis in southern Brazil.
abstract: We report the first case of human ocular sparganosis in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. A young female patient presented with three periocular moveable inflammatory masses in her right eye, during two years. By surgical excisional biopsy, a helminth larval stage was removed and identified as sparganum. Clinical, laboratory and epidemiological data on this parasite are presented.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Microbiologia do Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia Bohrer
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Mentz
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Procianoy
authors.forename: Marcelo Krieger
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Maestri
authors.forename: Marilise Brittes
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Rott
mesh_terms: D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013031:Sparganosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult