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Human Gongylonema infection in Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2024

G.H. Molavi ,
J. Massoud  and
Y. Gutierrez
G.H. Molavi
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health and Health Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J. Massoud
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health and Health Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Y. Gutierrez*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
*
*Corresponding author: Fax: 0098 216 646 2227, Email: molavig@yahoo.com
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Abstract

The first human infection with Gongylonema in Iran is reported in a 35-year-old Iranian woman with complaints of one year duration and treated as a psychotic patient. Two worms, a male, and a female, were retrieved, described, and identified as G. pulchrum based on their morphological characteristics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 425 - 428
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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