Beaver P C, Brenes R, Vargas Solano G
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1984 Jul;33(4):583-5. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1984.33.583.
A 2-year-old boy from a rural community of Costa Rica was admitted to hospital with a rash of increasing severity over an area of the flank about 8 cm in diameter. Sections of a biopsy from the center of the affected area revealed a necrotic mature, infertile, female filaria about 120 microns in diameter in a subcutaneous artery, surrounded by a layer of dense eosinophilic granulomatous reaction which at one point, along with the worm, extended into the dermis. The worm, readily distinguished from Dirofilaria, Onchocerca, Wuchereria and Brugia, was unidentified.
一名来自哥斯达黎加农村社区的2岁男孩因一侧胁腹直径约8厘米区域出现皮疹且皮疹严重程度不断增加而入院。取自患区中心的活检切片显示，在一条皮下动脉中有一条坏死的成熟、不育的雌性丝虫，直径约120微米，周围有一层致密的嗜酸性肉芽肿反应，在某一点上，连同该蠕虫一起延伸至真皮层。这条蠕虫很容易与犬恶丝虫、盘尾丝虫、班氏丝虫和布鲁格丝虫区分开来，但身份不明。
