Zoonotic Onchocerca in a Japanese Child

P. C. Beaver Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Parsitology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Department of Dermatology, Oita Medical College, New Orleans, Louisiana, Japan

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H. Yoshimura Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Parsitology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Department of Dermatology, Oita Medical College, New Orleans, Louisiana, Japan

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S. Takayasu Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Parsitology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Department of Dermatology, Oita Medical College, New Orleans, Louisiana, Japan

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H. Hashimoto Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Parsitology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Department of Dermatology, Oita Medical College, New Orleans, Louisiana, Japan

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M. D. Little Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Parsitology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Department of Dermatology, Oita Medical College, New Orleans, Louisiana, Japan

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1989.40.298
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Volume 40: Issue 3
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298–300
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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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Copyright © 1989 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1989
Published Online:
Mar 1989
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Print ISSN:
0002-9637
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