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Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris robertsi Ascarid.
Document Type
Article
Source
Emerging Infectious Diseases. Sep2023, Vol. 29 Issue 9, p1900-1903. 4p.
Subject
*LARVAE
*HUMAN beings
*PYTHONS
*HYPEREOSINOPHILIC syndrome
Language
ISSN
1080-6040
Abstract
We describe a case in Australia of human neural larva migrans caused by the ascarid Ophidascaris robertsi, for which Australian carpet pythons are definitive hosts. We made the diagnosis after a live nematode was removed from the brain of a 64-year-old woman who was immunosuppressed for a hypereosinophilic syndrome diagnosed 12 months earlier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]