Salpingitis Due toEnterobius vermicularis
- 12 January 1956
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 254 (2) , 67-69
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195601122540206
Abstract
ENTEROBIUS (formerly called "Oxyuris") vermicularis is the most common metazoan parasite of man. Despite its world-wide prevalence, its pathogenicity is very low, and it rarely strays from its usual habitat in the intestinal tract and the perianal skin. It is our purpose to report the case of a girl in whom the organism apparently caused a salpingooöphoritis, and to review briefly the literature of atypical infestation.The infestation, though extremely prevalent, is quite variable throughout the world, in various sections of the country, and even in various social classes. Thus, Weller and Sorenson1 reported a prevalence of 19 per . . .Keywords
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