EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Systemic Disorders
Diagnosis: tropical eosinophilia: bulbar conjunctival hyperemia OU

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Tropical eosinophilia is considered to be a manifestation of filariasis, a disease that is endemic to the Gangetic plain area where the Eye Clinic was conducted.

tropical eosinophilia

filariasis with elephantiasis. To avoid acquiring filariasis, hospital staff slept under mosquito nets at night.

 

 

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