Parasitic myositis in tropical Australia

2008/02/01 by Ron Basuroy, Robert Pennisi, Thomas Robertson +4 · 31 citations
Medicine · #Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations #Medicine #Medical laboratory #Family medicine #Pathology

paper · open access · doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01601.x

published in The Medical Journal of Australia 188(4), 254-256 (Wiley)

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Abstract

Three patients with Australian parasitic myositis caused by the muspiceoid nematode Haycocknema perplexum are described. Treatment with albendazole led to a slow and incomplete recovery, but treatment with steroids caused life-threatening deterioration.

Citations

• Durikainema phascolarcti n. sp. (Nematoda: Muspiceoidea: Robertdollfusidae) from the pulmonary arteries of the koala Phascolarctos cinereus with associated pathological changes
• Australian ecosystems, capricious food chains and parasitic consequences for people

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