Dipetalonema from the eye of a man in Oregon, U.S.A. A case report
Beaver, P.C.; Meyer, E.A.; Jarroll, E.L.; Rosenquist, R.C.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 29(3): 369-372
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9637 PMID: 7189968 Document Number: 163494
A 21 mm filarial worm appeared suddenly in the anterior chamber of the right eye of a 32 yr old man in western Oregon. By a simultaneous irrigation-aspiration procedure, it was removed alive and only slightly damaged and was identified as a female Dipetalonema in the 4th stage of development. It was the 3rd such case to be reported from western Oregon. In this and 1 other case the worms were morphologically similar to adult worms identified as D. arbuta Highby 1943 from the body cavity of the porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) and a similar species, D. sprenti Anderson 1953, from the body cavity of the beaver (Castor canadensis).