Dirofilaria from the index finger of a man in Costa Rica

Beaver, P.C.; Brenes, R.; Ardon, J.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 35(5): 988-990

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9637
PMID: 3766857
Document Number: 268767
A 4.5-cm male Dirofilaria indistinguishable from D. immitis was removed from the tip of the index finger of an 18-year-old farmer in Costa Rica. The case is reminiscent of a report of a larger (9-cm) but otherwise similar Dirofilaria, identified as D. spectans, a heartworm of otters, causing Raynaud's syndrome by occluding an artery of the fifth finger of a farm woman in Brazil. As in the present case, the worm was removed from a painful papule on the volar surface at the extreme tip of the affected finger.

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