TY - JOUR AU - Jyotsna, Aruna AU - Vinayan, Kollencheri Puthenveettil AU - Biswas, Lalitha AU - Haridas, Sujithra AU - Roy, Arun AU - Suresh, Parasmal AU - Kumar, Anil T1 - Eosinophilic Meningitis and Intraocular Infection Caused by Dirofilaria sp. Genotype Hongkong T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 5 SP - 1532 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Eosinophilic meningitis caused by human diroflarial infection is rare. We report a case of eosinophilic meningitis and concomitant intraocular dirofilarial infection in India. Sequencing of the mitochondrial genome identified the worm as Dirofilaria sp. genotype Hongkong, a close relative of D. repens nematodes. KW - dirofilariasis KW - eosinophilic meningitis KW - meningitis/encephalitis KW - ocular parasite KW - intraocular infection KW - Dirofilaria KW - genotype Hongkong KW - parasites KW - roundworms KW - nematodes KW - filarial nematodes DO - 10.3201/eid2705.203599 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/5/20-3599_article ER - End of Reference