Motile microfilaria captured by fluorescent microscopy and the unmasking of eosinophilia following treatment
- A 24-year-old patient from Cameroon presented to our hospital because of a foreign structure in her left eye. To our knowledge, for the first time, fluorescent microscopy revealed motile microfilariae, and the diagnosis of loiasis was established. Despite substantial microfilaremia, eosinophilia only unmasked after the initiation of antiparasitic therapy.
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| Author: | Gerrit KannGND, Hermann Juling, Valentina Ilievski, Gerrit BurgerORCiD, Stephan GöttigORCiDGND, Christoph StephanORCiDGND, Nils WetzsteinORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-790518 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2023.07.006 |
| ISSN: | 1201-9712 |
| Parent Title (English): | International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/07/28 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/07/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/02/02 |
| Tag: | Filariosis; Loa loa; Microfilaremia; Migrant health; NTDs; Neglected tropical diseases |
| Volume: | 134 |
| Page Number: | 2 |
| First Page: | 285 |
| Last Page: | 286 |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
