Unexpected infection with Armillifer parasites

Idzi Potters; Claude Desaive; Steven Van Den Broucke; Marjan Van Esbroeck; Lutgarde Lynen

doi:10.3201/eid2312.171189

Unexpected infection with Armillifer parasites

Idzi Potters, Claude Desaive, Steven Van Den Broucke, Marjan Van Esbroeck, Lutgarde Lynen

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Visceral pentastomiasis is usually found incidentally during surgery. We describe a case of visceral pentastomiasis discovered during inguinoscrotal hernia surgery for a man from Benin, Africa. Because surgical removal of nymphs is needed for symptomatic patients only, this patient's asymptomatic pentastomiasis was not treated and he recovered from surgery uneventfully.

Original language	English
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	23
Issue number	12
Pages (from-to)	2116-2118
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1080-6040
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.171189
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Unexpected infection with Armillifer parasites

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