This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on Web of Science (4)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

Harvey N. Sacks, MD; David N. Williams, MB, ChB; David E. Eifrig, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1976;136(8):914-915.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Loiasis is a chronic parasitic infection with the filarial nematode Loa loa. The organism is a common cause of illness in West Africa, particularly along the coastal plains, where about 8% to 9% of the population have microfilariae in their peripheral blood.¹

PATIENT SUMMARY

A 32-year-old man from Lagos, Nigeria, came to the emergency room of the University of Minnesota Hospitals, complaining of "worms biting my stomach." He left Nigeria in 1967, eight years prior to his coming to the emergency room; he had been well until 1971, when he felt something move across his eye. He was seen by a physician at that time, but attempts to secure the worm failed. Physical examination here disclosed discomfort in the left subcostal region but no cutaneous or other abnormality. The eosinophil count was 8%, and a blood smear taken in the early afternoon showed no microfilariae. No treatment was given . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine (Drs Sacks and Williams) and the Department of Ophthalmology (Dr Eifrig), University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 30, 1975; accepted Dec 15.

Reprint requests to Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (Dr Williams).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?