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Letter to the Editor
Conjunctival infestation of a child with
Theromyzon tessulatum
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Editor,—In its normal life cycle, Theromyzon tessulatum (duck leech) enters the nasal cavities of waterfowl to suck blood, staying in its host for hours up to days. Infestation of the human eye is very rare and may be classified as a zoonosis. To our knowledge only one case is described in the literature.1
CASE REPORT
A 4 year old girl bathed in a flooded gravel pit located in the western part of Freiburg (southwest Germany) for approximately 15 minutes; occasionally she had put her head under the surface of the water. Within 15 minutes after the girl had left the water, her father found a black coloured, oval …