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Michael J Rajkumar1, Stephanie Wright, Jaber Aslanzadeh
1Department of Pathology, Hartford Hospital, 80 Seymour Street, Hartford, CT 06102-5037, USA.
Abstract:
Filarial infection is endemic in the tropics and is a public health problem in Africa, Asia, South and Central America, and the Pacific Islands. Co-infection with filarial nematodes, if unrecognized, can result in untoward therapeutic consequences. We report a case of co-infection of Wuchereria bancrofti and Onchocerca volvulus that was diagnosed by direct blood smear (W. bancrofti ) and serology (O. volvulus) in a native of Sierra Leone. We comment briefly on the therapeutic implications of the co-infection.
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