ABSTRACT
Human parasitism with Filaria, Mansponella ozzardi, Faust 1929, is very frecuent in the Argentine North-West, principally in Tucumán, Catamarca and Salta provinces, But few with infestación show evidents signs. The case reported here, with conjuntival edema and rubicundity, adquired these infectation handling sawmill woods, in summer, brogth from the North-West of our place (General Alvear - Mendoza, Argentine), aproximately 1,000 Kilometers away. Probably this patients fell ill from mosquito or gnat (jejenes here) already infested, carried in the load. Diagnostic was made with sternal punture (see photography) and was treated with a veterinary product with "Invermectin". One year later, he is healthy and the blood smear is normal, without eosinophilia or parasitism