%0 Journal Article
%T Ocular Trematodiasis Caused by the Avian Eye Fluke Philophthalmus in Southern Texas
%A Cathy E Snider
%A Henry S Bishop
%A MacKevin Ndubuisi
%A Mark Fox
%A Rashed N Alhabshan
%A Richard S Bradbury
%A Sarah G H Sapp
%J Archive of "Open Forum Infectious Diseases".
%D 2019
%R 10.1093/ofid/ofz265
%X A trematode identified as a Philophthalmus sp was extracted from the bulbar conjunctiva of a patient in southern Texas with short-distance travel to Mexico. This parasite is very rarely reported from humans, and species identification is challenging. Aspects of diagnosis, zoonotic transmission, and unresolved questions about Philophthalmus spp are discussed
%K conjunctivitis
%K ocular parasitosis
%K Philophthalmus
%K trematodiases
%K zoonotic infections
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612876/