Volume 22, Number 2—February 2016
Research
Trematode Fluke Procerovum varium as Cause of Ocular Inflammation in Children, South India
Lalan Kumar Arya, Sivakumar R. Rathinam, Prajna Lalitha, Usha R. Kim, Sudeep Ghatani, and Veena Tandon1
Table 2
Summary of clinical features of 13 patients whose samples were positive for trematode DNA in study of ocular granulomas in children, South India*
| Sample no. | Type of granuloma | Patient age, y/sex | Duration of granuloma, ≈d |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SCG | 9/M | 30 |
| 2 | ACG | 9/F | 60 |
| 3 | ACG | 11/M | 30 |
| 4 | SCG | 11/F | 7 |
| 5 | SCG | 15/M | 35 |
| 6 | ACG | 9/M | 60 |
| 7 | SCG | 11/M | 30 |
| 8 | SCG | 11/M | 15 |
| 9 | SCG | 18/M | 30 |
| 10 | ACG | 7/M | 90 |
| 11 | ACG | 14/M | 15 |
| 12 | SCG | 6/M | 15 |
| 13 | SCG | 16/M | 10 |
| *Testing performed with Power SYBR Green Real-Time PCR (Applied Biosystems, Warrington, UK). SCG, subconjunctival granuloma; ACG, anterior chamber granuloma. All patients reported bathing in a pond or river, and all trematodes were determined to be Procerovum spp. | |||
1Current affiliation: National Academy of Sciences, India, Lucknow, India.
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