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. 2012 Apr;4(2):135-6.
doi: 10.4103/0974-777X.96782.

African eye worm

Etienne Rivière  1 , Julien Kerautret, France Combillet, Denis Malvy
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African eye worm

Etienne Rivière et al. J Glob Infect Dis. 2012 Apr.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Extraction of one adult Loa loa worm after conjunctival incision (snapshot from video)
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