Anguillulose autochtone: a propos de 3 cas

ABSTRACT

For the first time in Morocco, three cases report were related by the Authors, to autochtonous anguilluliasis; including that disseminated and deadly form of an utmost gravity, that happened to a corticotreated dermatomyositis patient. The two other patients had a mild evolution. Diagnosis is made by putting evidence of Rhabditoids larva and by stool-enhancing in the third case. This helminthiasis, although rare, must be well known by physicians and called for in numerous circumstances. Usually clinical manifestations are mainly expressed by digestive and cutaneous symptoms. Anarchic and prolonged hyper-eosinophilia is a great value biologic sign; thus it's also a therapeutic overseeing criterium. Severe forms happen on debilitated backgrounds, thus anguilluliasis case finding and it's systematic, non discriminated treatment [mainly in endemic zone] must appear between preventive bounds in acceptance with immunodepressed patients or with those subject to a long term immunosuppressive therapy