INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Zoonotic Ocular Infestations in Humans -A Report of 3 Cases

  • Author:
  • Placid E. D'Souza, Sanweer Khatoon
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 39 to 40

Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Veterinary College Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Hebbal, Bengaluru -560024 (Karnataka)

*Corresponding author E-mail: placid536@gmail.com

Online published on 4 September, 2014.

Abstract

Ocular infestations in human patients with Oestrus ovis larvae and Dirofilaria repens adult worms were encountered in three humans. The identification, vulnerability, zoonotic nature of parasites and its treatment was undertaken.

Keywords

Dirofilaria repens, human, Oestrus ovis, zoonotic