Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris robertsi Ascarid

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.

Keywords

• Ophidascaris
• Ophidascaris robertsi
• brain lesion
• human
• helminth
• nematode