Acute Ocular Pain following Contact with Electrical Ant's (Wasmannia Auropunctata) Excretions

doi:10.15344/2456-8007/2016/109

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International Journal of Clinical Research & Trials Volume 1 (2016), Article ID 1:IJCRT-109, 2 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-8007/2016/109

Case Report

Acute Ocular Pain following Contact with Electrical Ant's (Wasmannia Auropunctata) Excretions

Alona Paz^* and Israel Potasman

Infectious diseases, Bnai Zion Med. Ctr. and the Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel

Corresponding Author Details: Dr. Alona Paz, Infectious diseases, Bnai Zion Med. Ctr. and the Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel, Tel: 972-4-8359624, Fax: 972-4- 8359755; E-mail: alona.paz@gmail.com

Received: 03 September 2016; Accepted: 20 October 2016; Published: 22 October 2016

Citation: Paz A, Potasman I (2016) Acute Ocular Pain following Contact with Electrical Ant's (Wasmannia Auropunctata) Excretions. Int J Clin Res Trials 1: 109. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-8007/2016/109

Copyright: © 2016 Paz et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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