Ocular thelaziosis: an emerging human parasitosis in Europe

Human ocular thelaziasis with genetic analysis in Niigata Prefecture, Japan: A case report on an emerging zoonosis

“… 5 T. callipaeda is largely distributed around southeast Asia–spanning from China to Indonesia–and India, likely contributing to its other moniker, the “oriental eye worm”. 4 , 6 However, in the last three decades, since the early 1990s, cases of T. callipaeda infections have been found in European countries, 7 , 8 , 9 which may indicate a geographical widening of T. callipaeda distribution. The first case of thelaziasis in Japan was reported in 1957 in Kumamoto Prefecture in the Kyushu area.…”