KROK 1 2009 – Question 152 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
A man has worked in an African country for 3 years. A month after his return to Ukraine he consulted an ophthalmologist and complained about eye ache, eyelid edema, lacrimation and temporary visual impairment. Underneath the eye conjunctiva the doctor revealed helminths 30-50 mm long with elongated filiform body. What diagnosis might be suspected?
- A. Diphyllobothriasis
- B. Filariasis
- C. Enterobiasis
- D. Trichocephaliasis
- E. Ascaridiasis
Hint
Link the years spent in the tropics with a worm that lives in tissues rather than in the gut and has an elongated thread-like body.
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