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Pulmonary Ascariasis Resembling Eosinophilic Lung

Autopsy Report with Description of Larvae in the Bronchioles¹

In the lungs of an adult Indian in Singapore who died after a ten-day illness which was tentatively diagnosed as eosinophilic lung, numerous nematode larvae were found. The larvae have been identified morphologically as Ascaris sp., probably A. lumbricoides. It is believed that the larvae were responsible for the disease observed in this case, and that pulmonary ascariasis and eosinophilic lung are separate but clinically similar disease entities.

The observations suggest that this and possibly other species of nematode larvae may cause pulmonary symptoms with hypereosinophilia resembling the condition described as eosinophilic lung, and in life the two conditions may be indistinguishable.

¹ An investigation conducted under the sponsorship of the Commission on Parasitic Diseases, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and supported in part by the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army.

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