Thelazia callipaeda: a human case report.
We report a rare case of human thelaziasis. A 31-year-old man from Nakhon Pathom, Thailand presented to the hospital with a foreign body sensation in and excessive lacrimation from the right eye for one week. His visual acuity was normal. He gave a history of a fly flying around his face; he then rubbed it against his right eye. Five adult worms were collected from the right eye. Two were removed by the patients and three were removed on the ward, using a small cotton swab, from the conjunctival sac. All five worms were identified morphologically as Thelazia callipaeda. The patient became free of symptoms after the fifth worm was removed.
Department of Tropical Pathology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. tmpvr@mahidol.ac.th
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000469:parasitology; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000628:therapy; D013785:Thailand; D013802:Thelazioidea