Erin Bonura, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University (IMAGE)

Oregon Health & Science University

Erin Bonura, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University

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Erin Bonura, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (infectious disease) at the OHSU School of Medicine, answered a call on an infectious disease hotline OHSU runs for Northwest physicians that led her to treat the first known case of the nematode worm Thelazia gulosa, a type of cattle eyeworm, infecting a human.

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