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Rev Ciencias Médicas 2015; 19 (1)

Filariasis

Gómez MN, Primelles HR, Gómez MN, Pérez GH, Tipantasig CW

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 151-156
PDF size: 144.03 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: Filariasis is an imported parasitic infection caused by thread-like nematodes (filariae) that belong to the roundworm super-family filarioidea. There are around 200 types of filarial nematodes but only some use humans as their definitive hosts.
Clinical case: a 30 year-old male patient from Guinea, came to the ophthalmology emergency-room at Abel Santamaría Cuadrado University Hospital in Pinar del Rio presenting the sensation of a foreign body in both eyes, without other symptoms. After a thorough ophthalmologic examination a presumptive diagnosis of ocular filariasis was made.
Conclusions: filariasis is one of the exotic diseases in Cuba. It is necessary to raise the epidemiological surveillance of this disease since visits coming from endemic areas are recurrent. It is vitally important to provide and adequate assessment of these patients to achieve an early identification in order to apply timely methods of treatment.


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