Loiasis in US Traveler Returning from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, 2016

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Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2016 Dec 17

PMID 27983940

Citations 3

Authors

David H Priest

Thomas B Nutman

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Abstract

The filarial parasite Loa loa overlaps geographically with Onchocera volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti filariae in central Africa. Accurate information regarding this overlap is critical to elimination programs targeting O. volvulus and W. bancrofti. We describe a case of loiasis in a traveler returning from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, a location heretofore unknown for L. loa transmission.

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