@article{18942,
  keywords = {Aorta, Thoracic, Aortic Diseases, Autopsy, Diethylcarbamazine, Humans, Liver, Liver Diseases, Parasitic, Male, Middle Aged, onchocerciasis},
  author = {Meyers W M and Neafie R C and Connor D H},
  title = {Onchocerciasis: invasion of deep organs by Onchocerca volvulus.},
  abstract = {<p>Autopsies of two patients with onchocerciasis in the Republic of Zaïre are reported. In one patient elephantiasis who died following diethylcarbamazine therapy there were large numbers of microfilariae of Onchocerca volvulus in the kidney, liver, pancreas, and lung. In the second patient, who also had leprosy and hyperinfection strongyloidiasis, we found an encapsulated adult O. volvulus in the wall of the thoracic aorta.</p>},
  year = {1977},
  journal = {The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene},
  volume = {26},
  pages = {650-7},
  month = {1977 Jul},
  issn = {0002-9637},
  doi = {10.4269/ajtmh.1977.26.650},
  language = {eng},
}