Author/Authors :
Fallah Tafti, MR Eye Research Center - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran , Hajilary, A Eye Research Center - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran , Siatiri, H Eye Research Center - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran , Rokni, MB Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Iran , Mobedi, I Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Iran , Mowlavi, Gh Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Iran
Abstract :
Accidental infection with animal filarial worms in humans is a dilemma for clinicians and parasitologists
throughout the world. To date a variety of such rare parasitoses have been reported
mostly in tropics and subtropics. Human dirofilariasis is among those unusual zoonotic infections
that occasionally have been observed in the eye and in subcutaneous areas exhibiting with nodule
formation. Filarial worms are transmitted to humans through invertebrate biological vectors such
as certain species of mosquitoes. The present report describes a peculiar case of ocular dirofilariasis
in a 49-year-old man resident in Iran.
Keywords :
Dirofilariasis , Human , Case Report , Iran , Ocular
