title: The first human case of Thelazia callipaeda infection in Vietnam.
abstract: A 26-year-old man residing in a village of Thai Nguyen Province, North Vietnam, visited the Thai Nguyen Provincial Hospital in July 2008. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and extracted 5 small nematode worms by himself half a day before visiting the hospital. Two more worms were extracted from his left eye by a medical doctor, and they were morphologically observed and genetically analyzed on the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene. The worms were 1 male and 1 female, and genetically identical with those of Thelazia callipaeda. By the present study, the presence of human T. callipaeda infection is first reported in Vietnam.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. ngvdeyhn@gmail.com
authors.forename: Van De
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Hoa Le
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Thanh
authors.forename: Jong-Yil
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D010802:Phylogeny; D017205:Spirurida Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D013802:Thelazioidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014744:Vietnam
chemical_list: D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV