Armillifer armillatus infection

Niger J Clin Pract. 2011 Oct-Dec;14(4):501-3. doi: 10.4103/1119-3077.91767.

Abstract

We report a case of human pentastomiasis in a 70-year-old retired long-distance driver/farmer whose diagnosis was made incidentally while being investigated for a 1-month history of cough and abdominal pain. The chest X-ray revealed multiple comma-shaped and rounded opacities in keeping with Armillifer infection, most likely Armillifer armillatus. The patient made an uneventful recovery after a 10-day course of mebendazole (an antihelminthic) tablet and ciprofloxacin (antibiotic) capsules and was discharged home. He is presently being followed up. This is the first case we have seen in our medical unit thus we are reporting it.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use
  • Antinematodal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Ciprofloxacin / therapeutic use
  • Cough / etiology
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings
  • Liver Diseases, Parasitic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Diseases, Parasitic / drug therapy
  • Liver Diseases, Parasitic / parasitology
  • Lung Diseases, Parasitic / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Diseases, Parasitic / drug therapy
  • Lung Diseases, Parasitic / parasitology
  • Male
  • Mebendazole / therapeutic use
  • Pentastomida*
  • Radiography
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Antinematodal Agents
  • Ciprofloxacin
  • Mebendazole