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A rare case of upper airway obstruction due to laryngeal leech infestation in a 1-year-old child [PDF]
Respiratory Medicine Case ReportsLeech infestation of the upper airway is a rare but potentially life-threatening event, particularly in young children from rural areas exposed to untreated water sources.
Tsion Haile Woldemariam +6 more
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Current Biology, 2003 Proporciona una introducción básica para el conocimiento de las sanguijuelas, incluyendo su hábitat, la dieta, cómo se reproducen y las características físicas. El texto tiene dos niveles de dificultad y dos tamaños de letra para proporcionar una base para una mejor lectura.
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Two extensions of Leech labeling to the class of all graphs
AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, 2022 Let [Formula: see text] be a tree of order n and let [Formula: see text] be an injective edge labeling of T. The weight of a path P is the sum of the labels of the edges of P and is denoted by [Formula: see text] If the set of weights of the [Formula ...
Seena Varghese +2 more
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Cellulitis Caused by Hirudo orientalis Bites That Lead to an Allergic reaction
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2022 The allergic reaction due to leech bites is frequently reported due to complications of leech therapy and also unwanted leech infestation. Regularly, the urticarial papules are common, and itching lasts less than 24 h. In the case of leech biting, dermal
Mohsen Najjari +2 more
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Chromosome-level Dinobdella ferox genome provided a molecular model for its specific parasitism
Parasites & Vectors, 2023 Background Dinobdella ferox is the most frequently reported leech species parasitizing the mammalian nasal cavity. However, the molecular mechanism of this special parasitic behavior has remained largely unknown. Methods PacBio long-read sequencing, next-
Jiang-Wei Gao +7 more
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Untangling human milk oligosaccharides and infant gut microbiome
iScience, 2022 Summary: The developing gut microbiome in infancy plays a key role in shaping the host immune system and metabolic state, and human milk is the main factor influencing its composition. Human milk does not only serve to feed the baby, but also to help the
Andrea C. Masi, Christopher J. Stewart
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A Rare and Unusual Cause of Epistaxis
Bengal Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Leeches are blood sucking parasites of the phylum Amelida subgroup Hirudinea. Leech infestation is known as hirudiniasis. Endoparasitic infestation by leech is rarely reported in literature.
Ajay Mallick, Vijay Bhalla, Ravi Roy
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A Rare and Unusual Cause of Recurrent Hemoptysis: Alive Intratracheal Leech Infestation
Acta Medica Iranica, 2021 Hemoptysis is defined as blood expectoration from below the vocal cords. Foreign bodies inhaled or consumed can be the causes of hemoptysis. Among alive foreign objects, leech infestation, happens via drinking infested bodies of water. Leech infestation
Ebrahim Nadi, Marzieh Naderishahab
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Taxonomy, 2022 The genus Placobdella (Glossiphoniidae) has a centre of species concentration in North America. The type species P. costata is the only representative in the Palaearctic region.
Roy T. Sawyer
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A case of living leech in nasal cavity
Otolaryngology Case Reports, 2021 This paper presents a case of a patient with a 3-month history of recurrent right-sided epistaxis with heavy bleeding for 4-days. Leech infestation in the nasal cavity was found to be the main cause of the epistaxis via endoscopic examination.
Nan Hou +5 more
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