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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 28(1), 1979, pp. 45-48
Copyright © 1979 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Subcutaneous Dirofilariasis in Okinawa, Japan

J. Dick MacLean*, Paul C. Beaver AND Hilma Michalek
University of Hawaii Program, Okinawa Central Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, and Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

A nematode within a subcutaneous nodule excised from an elderly Okinawan man has been tentatively identified in sections as an immature Dirofilaria repens—the first to be reported from Japan.

Accepted for publication July 8, 1978.


* Present address: McGill University, Department of Medicine, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A4, Canada.




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