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A Case of Ocular Angiostrongyliasis with Molecular Identification of the Species in Vietnam

  • Nguyen, Van De (Department of Parasitology, Hanoi Medical University) ;
  • Le, Van Duyet (Department of Immunology, Institute of Bio-Technology) ;
  • Chai, Jong-Yil (Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2015.07.13
  • Accepted : 2015.09.29
  • Published : 2015.12.31
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Abstract

A 23-year-old female residing in a village of Cao Bang Province, North Vietnam, visited the Hospital of Hanoi Medical University in July 2013. She felt dim eyes and a bulge-sticking pain in her left eye for some days before visiting the hospital. In the hospital, a clinical examination, an eye endoscopy, and an operation were carried out. A nematode specimen was collected from the eye of this patient. The body of this worm was thin and long and measured $22.0{\times}0.3mm$. It was morphologically suggested as an immature female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. By a molecular method using 18S rRNA gene, this nematode was confirmed as A. cantonensis. This is the first molecular study for identification of A. cantonensis in Vietnam.

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