Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris robertsi Ascarid

Authors :: Mehrab E Hossain
Karina J. Kennedy
Heather L. Wilson
David Spratt
Anson Koehler
Robin B. Gasser
Jan Šlapeta
Carolyn A. Hawkins
Hari Priya Bandi
Sanjaya N. Senanayake
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 29, Iss 9, Pp 1900-1903 (2023)
Publication Year :: 2023
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023.
Abstract: We describe a case in Australia of human neural larva migrans caused by the ascarid Ophidascaris robertsi, for which Australian carpet pythons are definitive hosts. We made the diagnosis after a live nematode was removed from the brain of a 64-year-old woman who was immunosuppressed for a hypereosinophilic syndrome diagnosed 12 months earlier.