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A Case of Infection in Man with Dirofilaria
Rodney C. Jung
Rodney C. Jung
Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health and Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Pierre H. Espenan
Pierre H. Espenan
Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health and Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Summary
An adult female Dirofilaria tenuis was removed by biopsy from the subcutaneous tissue of the right thigh of a 39-year-old white man of McComb, Mississippi. The diagnosis was made preoperatively on the basis of peripheral-blood eosinophilia, a history of a migrating lesion, and presence of anti-filarial antibodies. The worm was found to contain microfilariae.
It is unknown whether the multiple lesions successively noted by the patient represented the effects of a single migrating worm or of two or more. There has been no recurrence since surgical removal of the single worm.
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