descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1989Publisher:American Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneJournal:The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, volume 40, pages 298-300 (issn: 0002-9637,

Authors: H. Hashimoto; S. Takayasu; H. Yoshimura; Paul C. Beaver; M. D. Little;

doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1989.40.298

pmid: 2929851

Zoonotic Onchocerca in a Japanese Child

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Abstract

A female Onchocerca was found in histopathological sections of a nodule removed from the foot of a 2-year-old girl in southern Japan. As in previously reported cases in Switzerland, Crimea, Canada, and the USA, evident morphological features of the worm resembled those of Onchocerca gutturosa and O. cervicalis, which are known to exist in cervical ligaments of cattle and horses, respectively, in Japan and elsewhere.

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Japan, Foot, Child, Preschool, Zoonoses, Animals, Humans, Female, Onchocerca, Onchocerciasis

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