Hemoptysis and Epistaxis Caused by Nile Leach, Limnatis nilotica, in the Hypopharyngeal Wall of an Adult Patient in Israel

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine B, Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, Ashdod, Israel, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
• ² Department of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases, Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, Ashdod, Israel, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
• ³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, Ashdod, Israel, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
• ⁴ Department of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁵ Parasitology Unit, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.