| Issue |
Parasite
Volume 20, 2013
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| Article Number | 5 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2013007 | |
| Published online | 14 February 2013 | |
Short Note
First case of human gongylonemosis in France
Premier cas de gongylonémose humaine en France
1
Laboratoire de Parasitologie et de Mycologie Médicale, Plateau Technique de Microbiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 rue Koeberlé, 67000 Strasbourg, France
2
Laboratoire d’Analyses Médicales Biehler, 5 Grand rue, 68170 Rixheim, France
3
Institut de Parasitologie et de Pathologie Tropicale de la Faculté de Médecine, EA-7292 DHPI, Université de Strasbourg, 3 rue Koeberlé, 67000 Strasbourg, France
4
Faculté de Pharmacie de Strasbourg, 74 route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France
5
USC Anses « Vecpar » EA 4688, UFR de Pharmacie, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51 rue Cognacq-Jay, 51096 Reims, France
* Corresponding author: bernard.pesson@wanadoo.fr
Received:
3
January
2013
Accepted:
7
February
2013
Gongylonema spp. are cosmopolitan spirurid nematodes that are common parasites of wild and domesticated mammals and birds. Gongylonema pulchrum Molin, 1857 is most common in ruminants, where it invades mucosa and submucosa of the mouth, tongue, oesophagus and forestomachs. It extremely rarely occurs in man, and fewer than 60 cases have been reported worldwide. We report a case from the Alsace region, which appears to be the first case of human gongylonemosis described in France.
Résumé
Les nématodes du genre Gongylonema sont des spiruridés cosmopolites parasites fréquents dans de nombreux mammifères et oiseaux sauvages ou domestiques. Gongylonema pulchrum Molin, 1857 est l’espèce la plus souvent rapportée chez les ruminants, dans la muqueuse et la sous-muqueuse de leur bouche, langue, œsophage et rumen. Il n’est que très exceptionnellement retrouvé chez l’homme. Moins de 60 cas ont été décrits à travers le monde. Nous rapportons dans cet article le premier cas français, découvert en Alsace.
Key words: Gongylonema / human infection / zoonosis / France / case report
© B. Pesson et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2013
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