Beware of Foreign Body Sensation” This Live Worm can Swim Through Your Eye! - A Case Series on Increasing Prevalance of Ocular Dirofilariasis in Tropical India: A Disease of Travel to Foreign Lands

The purpose is to report a case series of increasing prevalence of ocular Dirofilariasis in tropical areas of South India and the importance of the disease with travel to tropical areas Human Dirofilariasis, caused by Dirofilaria repens, have been reported to occur widely throughout Asia, Europe, an...

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Main Authors: Sruthi S Guptha, Ranjakumar TC, Lalith Sundaram, Rahana M Ashraf, Syed Adil, Mohammad Hisham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2015-12-01
Series:International Journal of Recent Surgical and Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1678629