Enterobius vermicularis in a 14-year-old girl's eye

N. Esther Babady; Erich Awender; Robert Geller; Terry Miller; Gayle Scheetz; Heather Arguello; Scott A. Weisenberg; Bobbi Pritt

doi:10.1128/JCM.05475-11

Enterobius vermicularis in a 14-year-old girl's eye

N. Esther Babady, Erich Awender, Robert Geller, Terry Miller, Gayle Scheetz, Heather Arguello, Scott A. Weisenberg, Bobbi Pritt

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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We report an unusual case of extraintestinal infection with adult Enterobius vermicularis worms in the nares and ocular orbit of a 14-year-old girl in Illinois. Only one other similar case has been reported in the English-language literature.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4369-4370
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	49
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.05475-11
State	Published - Dec 2011

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