Human Gongylonema infection in Spain

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1988 Mar;38(2):363-5. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1988.38.363.

Abstract

A case of gongylonemiasis in a 31-year-old woman of Granada, Spain, is reported. The worm, clearly belonging to Gongylonema genus, could not be identified definitively as Gongylonema pulchrum, the species usually described in humans.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Cheek / parasitology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Nematode Infections / epidemiology
  • Nematode Infections / parasitology*
  • Spain
  • Spiruroidea / anatomy & histology
  • Spiruroidea / classification
  • Spiruroidea / isolation & purification*