A Case of Human Thelaziasis Concomitantly found with a Reservoir Host.

Choi, Dong Kwang; Cho, Seung Yull

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1978;19(1):125-129.
Published online January 1, 1978.

A Case of Human Thelaziasis Concomitantly found with a Reservoir Host.

¹Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
²Department of Ophthalmology, The 57th Evacuation Hospital, ROKA, Korea.

감염원과 함께 발견된 동양안충 (東洋眼蟲) 증례

최동광 , 조승열 ( Dong Kwang Choi , Seung Yull Cho )

Abstract

The 8th Korean case of human thelaziasis was recorded with the description of the most probable source of infection of the case. The patient was 23-year-old Korean Army soldier who had been in mountainous vicinity of Seoul for 6 months and complained of moving foreign body sensation, photophobia and epiphora of the left eye during past 7 days before the ophthalmological consultation. Total 3 worms were removed from the eye, two by a friend, one by the ophthalmologist. The latter one waS parasitologically identified as a female worm of Thelazia callipaeda. The dogs in the military compound were examined and one eye of them was found to be infected with 11 male and 20 female of oriental eye worms under the nictitating membrane. The significance of dog as a reservoir host of T. callipaeda infection was discussed.