Prevalence of Gnathostoma spinigerum infection in wild and cultured swamp eels in Vietnam.

Human infections with Gnathostoma spinigerum frequently occur in southern Vietnam. Previous investigations have implicated infected swamp eels (Monopterus albus) as an important source of infection to humans. Because aquaculture of M.

The first human infection with Bertiella studeri in Vietnam.

This is the first case report of Bertiella studeri infection in Vietnam. The patient was a 4 year old boy in Cai Lay district of Tien Giang Province, noting some proglottids in his feces. The time and mode of infection were unknown, but anorexia, weight loss, and intermittent diarrhea were noted.

Case report: intraocular gnathostomiasis in Vietnam.

This is the report of the first case of intraocular gnathostomiasis diagnosed in Vietnam. The disease progressed in two months in two distinct phases: in the first phase, the patient had swellings, which appeared at different times and in different locations, on his face--this phase lasted around one month; the second phase was the embedding of the parasite in the vitreous cavity of the right eye and uveitis. Surgical extraction of a living Gnathostoma larva was carried out.

[Various clinical aspects of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease too often unrecognized in the Paris area. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems].

Muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis is now more frequently observed in France owing to population movements. One should learn to recognise the disease, the various aspects of which are presented here (7 cases). They recall the necessity of associating direct search for leishmania in the serous exsudate from the lesions or on histological sections, routine culture of swabs on agar jelly en riched with blood and on heart-brain blood medium.