Intraocular nematodiasis in a llama (Lama glama).

Can Vet J

Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19348, USA.

Published: February 2011

This report describes a unique case of presumed migration of Parelaphastrongylus tenuis through the spinal cord into the eye of a llama where it survived and matured within the ocular environment. Blindness of the eye was most likely attributable to migration of the parasite through the central nervous tissue.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022461PMC

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