Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2021)

Ocular Filariasis in Human Caused by Breinlia (Johnstonema) annulipapillata Nematode, Australia

  • Anson V. Koehler,
  • Jennifer M.B. Robson,
  • David M. Spratt,
  • Joshua Hann,
  • Ian Beveridge,
  • Michael Walsh,
  • Rodney McDougall,
  • Mark Bromley,
  • Anna Hume,
  • Harsha Sheorey,
  • Robin B. Gasser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2701.203585
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 1
pp. 297 – 300

Abstract

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We report a human case of ocular filariasis, caused by a species of Breinlia nematode, from Queensland, Australia. Morphological and molecular evidence indicated that the nematode Breinlia (Johnstonema) annulipapillata, or a closely related taxon, likely transmitted from a macropodid marsupial host was involved, which might represent an accidental finding or an emerging zoonosis.

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