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Case Reports
. 2015 Apr 7;187(6):437.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.140609. Epub 2015 Jan 5.

Chronic symptomatic and microfilaremic loiasis in a returned traveller

Courtney Thompson  1 , Ajith Cy  1 , Andrea K Boggild  2
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Case Reports

Chronic symptomatic and microfilaremic loiasis in a returned traveller

Courtney Thompson et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Adult stage of the filarial nematode Loa loa migrating in the conjunctiva of the left eye of a 24-year-old woman who had travelled to Cameroon.
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