Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by <i>Ophidascaris robertsi</i> Ascarid
Mehrab E Hossain, Karina Kennedy, Heather L. Wilson, David M. Spratt, Anson V. Koehler, Robin B. Gasser, Jan Šlapeta, Carolyn Hawkins, Hari Priya Bandi, Sanjaya Senanayake
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.
Topics & Concepts
Larva migransCutaneous larva migransLarvaVisceral larva migransNematodeBiologyHelminthsHelminthiasisParasitologyZoologyPathologyMedicineEcologyParasite Biology and Host InteractionsParasitic infections in humans and animalsHelminth infection and control