著者

田村 幸雄 松井 正宏 吉田 昭仁 小原 久典 Yukio TAMURA Masahiro MATSUI Akihito YOSHIDA Hisanori OHARA 東京工芸大学工学部建築学科 東京工芸大学工学部建築学科 東京工芸大学工学部建築学科 ウインディ

雑誌

東京工芸大学工学部紀要 = The Academic Reports, the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Polytechnic University (ISSN:03876055)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, no.1, pp.148-159, 2003

著者

Mineo HAYASAKI Mikako UENO Hiroyasu EJIMA Akira MUNAKATA Yukio TAMURA

出版者

公益社団法人 日本獣医学会

雑誌

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.12-0206, (Released:2012-10-15)

被引用文献数

1 2

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A dog was suspected of suffering from ectopic Dirofilaria immitis infection, because a large white nematode worm was detected in the anterior chamber of the left eye. A cylinder-shaped fibrin sac in the anterior chamber was found in the eye of the dog by slit lamp microscopy. After successful surgical removal of the worm, the corneal wound produced by the keratotomy healed in a short period. The worm was estimated to be extremely young, 5th-stage-immature male D. immitis, equivalent to a 90–120-day-old worm postinfection, by close morphological measurement and an experimental infection study. Thus, an immature worm can exhibit erratic parasitism in a host’s eye. The fibrin sac was considered to be a trace of the invasion route, and the cornea may have been the port of entry into the anterior chamber of the eye in the erratic migration of D. immitis.