Human ocular dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens in Sri Lanka

作     者：Devika Iddawela Kiruthiha Ehambaram Susiji Wickramasinghe 

作者机构：Department of ParasitologyFaculty of MedicineUniversity of Peradeniya 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》 (亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第8卷第12期

页      面：996-999页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Research Council Grant 07-38 

主　　题：Ocular dirofilariasis Dirofilaria repens Morpholog 

摘      要：Objective:To identify worms obtained from patients with eye lesions and to describe the demographic factors of patients with ocular ***:A retrospective descriptive study was conducted in 31 worm samples from 30 patients referred by consultant ophthalmologists between 2006 and February *** on age,sex and site of the lesion were ascertained from the details given in the referral *** identification of the worm was based on the maximum width,length and appearance of the *** sex of the worm was determined by the width,length and presence or absence of vulva *** was performed using Dirofilaria repens specific primers to confirm the species of worms which could not be identified ***:Most of the patients belonged to the age group of 40-49 years(mean age = 42 years).Majority of them were females(70%).Subconjunctival lesions were the most frequent presentation,while the rest(n = 4) were found on *** worms were extracted from 18 cases,and 11 had male *** individual had both male and female worms in a single *** were the most commonly *** pattern was different from the previous studies in Sri Lanka where the most common age group affected was younger than 9 years ***:The present study showed a considerably high incidence of ocular dirofilariasis,stressing the importance of implementing preventive measures to reduce the transmission of this zoonotic filarial disease.