Department of Microbiology, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal.
Department of Forensic Medicine, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2021 Oct 15;59(242):1060-1062. doi: 10.31729/jnma.6447.
Thelaziasis is a zoonotic disease which affects the eye of domestic and wild carnivores caused by the nematode Thelazia. It is transmitted to humans by secretophagous arthropod-borne zoophilic nonbiting flies of the family Drosophilidae. Human thelaziasis is rare and occurs in poor socio-economic families of the rural locations where people live in close proximity with animals. A one and halfyear-old was presented to the outpatient ophthalmology clinic after her mother noticed a whitish, thread-like worm in her right eye. A total of four worms were mechanically removed from her right eye. All the collected worms were gravid female nematodes of Thelazia species. The present case of human ocular thelaziasis from Palpa, Nepal is presented for its rarity.
眼裂头蚴病是一种动物源性疾病，影响家犬和野生肉食动物的眼睛，由线虫裂头蚴引起。它通过嗜食性节肢动物传播给人类，这些节肢动物是蝇科的亲动物性非吸血蝇。人类眼裂头蚴病很少见，发生在农村地区社会经济条件差的家庭，那里的人与动物密切接触。一名一岁半的女孩因母亲发现其右眼有一条白色的线状虫子而到门诊眼科就诊。从她的右眼共取出四条虫子。所有采集到的虫子都是有孕的雌性线虫属裂头蚴。本病例为来自尼泊尔帕尔帕的人类眼部裂头蚴病，其罕见性值得报道。
