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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 40(3), 1989, pp. 298-300
Copyright © 1989 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Zoonotic Onchocerca in a Japanese Child

P. C. Beaver, H. Yoshimura, S. Takayasu, H. Hashimoto AND M. D. Little
Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, Department of Parsitology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, and Department of Dermatology, Oita Medical College, Oita, Japan

A female Onchocerca was found in histopathological sections of a nodule removed from the foot of a 2-year-old girl in southern Japan. As in previously reported cases in Switzerland, Crimea, Canada, and the USA, evident morphological features of the worm resembled those of Onchocerca gutturosa and O. cervicalis, which are known to exist in cervical ligaments of cattle and horses, respectively, in Japan and elsewhere.






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