Calabar swellings in immigrants in Western Australia
Charters, A.D.; Welborn, T.A.; Miller, P.
Medical Journal of Australia 1(6): 268-271
1972
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X PMID: 5062569 Document Number: 47709
Two cases of calabar swelling believed to be due to Acanthocheilonema perstans in one case and Loa loa in the other in immigrants to Australia are described. The infections were thought to have occurred in Nigeria.
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