Médecine et Santé Tropicales
MENUMyeloblasts and atypical bone marrow: Fortuitous discovery of the filiarial nematode loa loa in the bone marrow during a work-up for prolymphocytic T-cell leukemia Volume 29, issue 2, Avril-Mai-Juin 2019
Authors
1 Faculté de médecine et de pharmacie, Université des sciences de la santé, Libreville, Gabon
2 Centre hospitalier universitaire de Libreville, Libreville, Gabon
* Correspondance
- Key words: Filiaris, Loa loa, bone marrow, Gabon
- DOI : 10.1684/mst.2019.0864
- Page(s) : 133-4
- Published in: 2019
Loiasisis a chronic cutaneous disease caused by a filarial nematode for whom humans are the only definitive host: Loa loa, an African eyeworm transmitted by Chrysops flies. The parasite is seen on blood smears, in the skin, or during its ocular migration, but rarely on a bone marrow smear. We report the case of a 57-year-old Gabonese woman whose bone marrow aspiration during a work-up for T-cell leukemia fortuitously found Loa loa filariae.