Case report: intraocular localization of Mansonella perstans in a patient from south Chad

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2002 Nov-Dec;96(6):654. doi: 10.1016/s0035-9203(02)90343-3.

Abstract

A case of Mansonella perstans infection with visual impairment and a retinal lesion is described. After a course of diethylcarbamazine and a further course of mebendazole the symptoms improved and the microfilariae blood concentration decreased. The symptoms and response to antifilarial treatment strongly suggested the intraocular localization of an M. perstans worm.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Antinematodal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Diethylcarbamazine / therapeutic use
  • Eye Infections, Parasitic / drug therapy
  • Eye Infections, Parasitic / parasitology*
  • Filaricides / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mansonella / isolation & purification
  • Mansonelliasis / complications*
  • Mansonelliasis / drug therapy
  • Mebendazole / therapeutic use
  • Microfilariae
  • Retinal Diseases / drug therapy
  • Retinal Diseases / parasitology*
  • Vision Disorders / parasitology

Substances

  • Antinematodal Agents
  • Filaricides
  • Mebendazole
  • Diethylcarbamazine