Beaver P C, Orihel T C, Leonard G
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1990 Aug;43(2):167-9. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1990.43.167.
A worm in the lung of a man in Colombia, whose death was caused by lymphoid leukemia, originally reported as Wuchereria bancrofti with embryos in the uterus, was re-examined and identified as a Dirofilaria sp. and its gravid condition confirmed. A Dirofilaria sp. in the lung of a man in Japan, reported as gravid, was found to be nongravid with sloughed fragments of lining of the uterus mistaken for microfilariae. Noteworthy in the Colombia case is the association of lymphoid leukemia in the host and the gravid condition of the worm.
哥伦比亚一名男子死于淋巴样白血病，其肺部曾发现一条蠕虫，最初报告为子宫内带有胚胎的班氏吴策线虫，经重新检查后确定为一种恶丝虫属，并确认其处于妊娠状态。日本一名男子肺部发现一条报告为妊娠状态的恶丝虫属蠕虫，结果发现并未妊娠，子宫内衬脱落碎片被误认为微丝蚴。哥伦比亚病例中值得注意的是宿主的淋巴样白血病与蠕虫的妊娠状态之间的关联。
