8-cm live parasitic roundworm removed from woman's brain in World's 1st discovery
India TV NewsIn the world's first such case, a team of Australian neurosurgeons has removed an eight cm-long parasitic roundworm from a patient who complained of forgetfulness and depression. The world's first case of a new parasitic infection in humans was discovered by researchers at The Australian National University and the Canberra Hospital after they detected a live roundworm from a carpet python in the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman. "This is the first-ever human case of Ophidascaris to be described in the world," said Sanjaya Senanayake, leading ANU and Canberra Hospital infectious disease expert in a paper published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Respiratory samples and a lung biopsy were performed; however, no parasites were identified in these specimens," said Karina Kennedy, Canberra Hospital’s Director of Clinical Microbiology and Associate Professor at the ANU Medical School, Senanayake said the world-first case highlighted the danger of diseases and infections passing from animals to humans, especially as we start to live more closely together and our habitats overlap more and more.
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