PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - W. D. Leers
AU  - M. K. Sarin
AU  - K. Arthurs
TI  - Syngamosis, an unusual cause of asthma: the first reported case in Canada
DP  - 1985 Feb 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 269--270
VI  - 132
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/132/3/269.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/132/3/269.full
SO  - CMAJ1985 Feb 01; 132
AB  - The first case of syngamosis in a human in Canada is reported. The patient, a traveller to the Caribbean islands, presented with a chronic dry cough. The nematode Syngamus laryngeus is found in wild and domestic birds and mammals in the tropics and subtropics. Humans are only accidental hosts. The diagnosis of syngamosis is usually made by fibreoptic bronchoscopic examination, which reveals the Y-shaped worms in the bronchi or the characteristic eggs in the sputum or feces. Physicians must be alerted to the possibility of syngamosis in patients with symptoms of asthma who have recently travelled to South America or the Caribbean islands.