Larva migrans
- Topography: plantar (contact with sand on beach)
- Distribution: Caribbean, West Africa, East Asia
- Fine, immobile, serpentine grooves
- Eczematization with vesicobullous eruptions
- Infeccio disse para colher hemograma e serologia do strongiloides.
- Fez Crioterapia e albendazol 400mg 12/12h 4 dias (8 comprimidos)
Visceral larva migrans
- Contamination from ingestion of poorly cooked traditional dishes (fish, frogs, chicken)
- Thailand, Japan, China
Larva currens
- Predominantly on the lower back and buttocks
- More stocky and above all fleeting, easily simulating hives
- Corticosteroid may be fatal because facilitates development of generalized roundworm infection, particularly in the brain)
Loiasis (loa loa)
- Subcutaneous or subconjuntival migration of adult filariae (Loa loa) in the form of a single, long, thin (10cmx1cm) groove that moves rapidly (1cm/min)
- Calabar edema: elastic, slightly inflammatory, pruritic, fleeting and recurrent edema, confined to the forearm, more rarely to the leg
- Treatment
- Ivermectin → careful → risk of immunoallergic encephalitis if microfilaremia is high
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