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Aplastic anaemia with microfilaria in marrow aspirate

Author(s) -

Narender Tejwnai,

Seema Tyagi,

Jasmita Dass

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 31

ISSN - 2035-3006

DOI - 10.4084/mjhid.2012.019

Subject(s) - microfilaria , wuchereria bancrofti , aplastic anemia , medicine , pathology , bone marrow , anemia , cytology , filariasis , immunology , helminths

Wuchereria bancrofti is endemic in many parts of of south east asia including india. The parasite is reported previously in many aspirate cytology smears, however its rare to find this parasite in bone marrow aspirate smear and even rare is it association with aplastic anemia. We report here a case presenting with symptoms related to bone marrow failure and incidentally detected to have microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti. The case is reported because of this rare association

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