Unexpected Infection with Armillifer Parasites

Potters, Idzi; Desaive, Claude; Van Den Broucke, Steven; Van Esbroeck, Marjan; Lynen, Lutgarde

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Unexpected Infection with Armillifer Parasites

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Dec 2017
By Potters, Idzi ; Desaive, Claude ; Van Den Broucke, Steven ; ...

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Potters, Idzi ; Desaive, Claude ; Van Den Broucke, Steven ; Van Esbroeck, Marjan ; Lynen, Lutgarde
Description:

Visceral pentastomiasis is usually found incidentally during surgery. We describe a case of visceral pentastomiasis discovered during inguinoscrotal hernia surgery for a man from Benin, Africa. Because surgical removal of nymphs is needed for symptomatic patients only, this patient's asymptomatic pentastomiasis was not treated and he recovered from surgery uneventfully.
Subjects:

Adult Animals Hernia, Inguinal Herniorrhaphy Humans Male Nymph Parasitic Diseases Pentastomida
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 23(12):2116-2118.
Pubmed ID:

29148381
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC5708260
Document Type:

Journal Article
Place as Subject:

Benin
Location:

Africa
Volume:

23
Issue:

12
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:7bca7ab88f4a96688bb1e785c0a2bce8cd5ff39c689f78e8d963d53bf6b99b10
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50213/cdc_50213_DS1.pdf
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