DOI: 10.36106/ijsr/8611422 ISSN:

CASE REVIEW OF CALCIFIED GUINEA WORM.

Srijan Shailesh Pandey, Ananta Kulkarni, Tushar Jadhav, Prajakta Kulkarni
  • General Medicine
  • Microbiology (medical)
  • Immunology
  • Immunology and Allergy
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
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Although Dracunculiasis has been eradicated from most parts of the world, it is still endemic in some tropical African and Asian countries.[1,14]Calcied Guinea worms can be misdiagnosed with hydatid disease, loa loa and onchrocera volvus , so a proper knowledge about the diagnosis must be present with the physician.[2,18]Here we report a 65-year-old female from Maharashtra with radiological evidence of calcied Guinea worms.There is need for awareness among physicians about the occurrence of GWD in people and the need to ensure supply of safe drinking water to prevent its re-emergence

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