Freshwater sponge spicules: a new agent of ocular pathology
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
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101(8): 899-903, Dec. 2006. ilus
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ABSTRACT
In a recent outbreak of human ocular injuries that occurred in the town of Araguatins, at the right bank of Araguaia river, state of Tocantins, Brazil, along the low water period of 2005, two patients (8 and 12-year-old boys) presented inferior adherent leukoma in the left eye (OS), and peripherical uveites, with snowbanking in the inferior pars plana. The third one (13-year-old girl) showed posterior uveites in OS, also with snowbanking. Histopathological analysis of lensectomy material from the three patients and vitrectomy from the last one revealed several silicious spicules (gemmoscleres) of the freshwater sponges Drulia uruguayensis and D. ctenosclera. This work brings material evidences, for the first time in the literature, that freshwater sponge spicules may be a surprising new etiological agent of ocular pathology.
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Asunto principal:
Poríferos
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Catarata
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Agudeza Visual
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Baja Visión
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
Límite:
Animales
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Femenino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina Tropical
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Parasitología
Año:
2006
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Brasil
Institución/País de afiliación:
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz/BR
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Fundacao Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul/BR
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Secretaria Estadual da Saúde/BR
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/BR
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