2001, Number 4
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Rev Mex Patol Clin Med Lab 2001; 48 (4)
Ocular gnathostomiasis. One more case registered in Mexico
Lamothe AR, Alarcón OF, Sánchez MRM
Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 219-222
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ABSTRACT
A new case of ocular gnathostomiasis reported from Mexico is presented in this paper. The living parasite, that was surgically removed from left eye of a patient with active movements, was the larval form of a nematode of the genus
Gnathostoma; this is the sixth case reported from Mexico.
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