Abstract

CASTANO, Jhon Carlos et al. First case report of Mammomonogamus (Syngamus) laryngeus human infection in Colombia. Biomédica [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.3, pp.337-341. ISSN 0120-4157.

Parasitic nematodes of the genus Mammomonogamus affect the respiratory tract of domestic mammals. The male and female of M. laryngeus remain in permanent copula so that the pair appears as a "Y’. To date, a few more than 100 cases of human infections by this parasite have been reported in the biomedical literature. This report describes the first infected patient in Colombia. He had a persistent and productive cough and after an episode of coughing a pair of worms were expelled in sputum with total clinical recovery. Since there is scant clinical information about this parasite, this report includes a description of the adult worms, a summary of the epidemiology and the clinical manifestations in humans. Photographs are presented to facilitate future identification by morphological characteristics.

Keywords : parasites; parasitology; respiratory insufficiency; case reports.

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