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Intravitreal Injections in the Ovine Eye
Published on: July 5, 2022
Intraocular nematodiasis in a llama (Lama glama)
Bettina Dunkel1, Raymond W Sweeney, Perry L Habecker
1Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19348, USA. bdunkel@rvc.ac.uk
Abstract:
This report describes a unique case of presumed migration of Parelaphastrongylus tenuis through the spinal cord into the eye of a llama where it survived and matured within the ocular environment. Blindness of the eye was most likely attributable to migration of the parasite through the central nervous tissue.
