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http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2016.54.3.319

A Pediatric Case of Thelaziasis in Korea  

Yim, Chung Hyuk (Department of Pediatrics, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
Ko, Jeong Hee (Department of Pediatrics, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
Lee, Jung Hyun (Department of Pediatrics, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
Choi, Yu Mi (Department of Pediatrics, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
Lee, Won Wook (Department of Pediatrics, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
Ahn, Sang Ki (Department of Ophthalmology, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
Ahn, Myoung Hee (Department of Environmental Biology and Medical Parasitology, Hanyang University College of Medicine)
Choi, Kyong Eun (Department of Pediatrics, Gwangmyeong Sungae Hospital)
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases / v.54, no.3, 2016 , pp. 319-321 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the present study, we intended to report a clinical pediatric case of thelaziasis in Korea. In addition, we briefly reviewed the literature on pediatric cases of thelaziasis in Korea. In the present case, 3 whitish, thread-like eye-worms were detected in a 6-year-old-boy living in an urban area and contracted an ocular infection known as thelaziasis incidentally during ecological agritainment. This is the first report of pediatric thelaziasis in Seoul after 1995.
Keywords
Thelazia callipaeda; thelaziasis; eye-worm; pediatric ocular parasite; ecological agritainment;
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