Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2023)

Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris robertsi Ascarid

  • Mehrab E Hossain,
  • Karina J. Kennedy,
  • Heather L. Wilson,
  • David Spratt,
  • Anson Koehler,
  • Robin B. Gasser,
  • Jan Šlapeta,
  • Carolyn A. Hawkins,
  • Hari Priya Bandi,
  • Sanjaya N. Senanayake

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2909.230351
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 9
pp. 1900 – 1903

Abstract

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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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