A Second Case of Human Conjunctival Infestation With Thelazia gulosa and a Review of T. gulosa in North America
Open Access
- 22 October 2019
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 70 (3), 518-520
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz469
Abstract
We describe a second case of human infection caused by Thelazia gulosa (the cattle eye worm), likely acquired in California. For epidemiologic purposes, it is important to identify all Thelazia recovered from humans in North America to the species level.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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