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A Case of Human Gnathostomiasis in Malaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

A. A. Sandosham L.M.S. (Singapore)
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Biology, College of Medicine, Singapore.

Extract

Twenty-eight cases of adult or larval worms belonging to the genus Gnathostoma Owen, 1886, have been recorded from man.

One of the earliest records is from Malaya where Samy (1918) extracted a larval gnathostome from the finger of a young male Chinese.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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