Pulmonary Dirofilariasis: Restudy of Worms Reported Gravid

Paul C. Beaver School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane Medical Center, School of Medicine, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Thomas C. Orihel School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane Medical Center, School of Medicine, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1990.43.167
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Volume 43: Issue 2
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167–169
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A worm in the lung of a man in Colombia, whose death was caused by lymphoid leukemia, originally reported as Wuchereria bancrofti with embryos in the uterus, was re-examined and identified as a Dirofilaria sp. and its gravid condition confirmed. A Dirofilaria sp. in the lung of a man in Japan, reported as gravid, was found to be nongravid with sloughed fragments of lining of the uterus mistaken for microfilariae. Noteworthy in the Colombia case is the association of lymphoid leukemia in the host and the gravid condition of the worm.

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Copyright © 1990 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1990
Published Online:
Aug 1990
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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