Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by
Ophidascaris robertsi Ascarid.
Emerg Infect Dis 2023;
29:1900-1903. [PMID:
37610238 PMCID:
PMC10461669 DOI:
10.3201/eid2909.230351]
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Abstract
We describe a case in Australia of human neural larva migrans caused by the ascarid Ophidascaris robertsi, for which Australian carpet pythons are definitive hosts. We made the diagnosis after a live nematode was removed from the brain of a 64-year-old woman who was immunosuppressed for a hypereosinophilic syndrome diagnosed 12 months earlier.
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