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Subconjunctival Infection with Dirofilaria Repens
Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2002 infection, rarely seen in humans, is a zoonotic illness. Humans get infected through blood -sucking arthropods such as mosquitoes, fleas and ticks. During blood sucking, these ar thropods receive the immature stages of the parasite called microfilaria.
Koltas Ì.S., Özcan K., Duran N.
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Emerging risk of Dirofilaria spp. infection in shelter dogs in southern Italy
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 In southern Italy, the number of autochthonous cases of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs has increased considerably. This also occurs in the Campania region, particularly in coastal areas, where infections with D.
Lavinia Ciuca +5 more
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Recent advances on Dirofilaria repens in dogs and humans in Europe [PDF]
, 2018 Dirofilaria repens is a nematode affecting domestic and wild canids, transmitted by several species of mosquitoes. It usually causes a non-pathogenic subcutaneous infection in dogs and is the principal agent of human dirofilariosis in the Old World.
Baneth, Gad +9 more
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First records of Dirofilaria repens in wild canids from the region of Central Balkan [PDF]
, 2014 Dirofilaria repens causes an emerging zoonotic disease in Europe, particularly in its southern part, the Mediterranean region. Many reports on human dirofilariosis have been published recently, but little is known about the wildlife hosts and reservoirs ...
Burazerović, Jelena +6 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 BackgroundCutaneous dirofilariosis is a canine mosquito-borne zoonosis that can cause larva migrans disease in humans. Dirofilaria repens is considered an emerging pathogen occurring with high prevalence in Mediterranean areas and many parts of tropical ...
Esra Yilmaz +15 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 We report a human case of ocular Dirofilaria infection in a traveler returning to Austria from India. Analysis of mitochondrial sequences identified the worm as Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, a close relative of Dirofilaria repens, which was only ...
Stefan Winkler +8 more
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Field clinical study evaluating the efficacy and safety of an oral formulation containing milbemycin oxime/praziquantel (Milbemax®, Novartis Animal Health) in the chemoprevention of the zoonotic canine infection by Dirofilaria repens [PDF]
, 2014 Dirofilaria repens is the causative agent of subcutaneous dirofilariosis of dogs, other animals and humans. This nematode is transmitted by mosquitoes of Aedes, Anopheles and Culex genera.
Angela Di Cesare +11 more
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Cytological diagnostics of subcutaneous dirofilariasis imitating proliferative lesions in dogs
Veterinární Medicína, 2020 Subcutaneous dirofilariasis is a disease in animals caused by invasions of nematodes, most often of the following species: Dirofilaria repens, D. tenuis, and D. striata transmitted by mosquitoes. Until recently, D. repens was endemic to the Mediterranean
Stanislaw Dzimira, Przemyslaw Przadka
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, 2001 A dog microfilariae prevalence and risk factor survey was conducted in 51 contiguous municipalities of the Mt. Vesuvius area (Campania region, southern Italy) in order to add data to the limited epidemiological information available regarding filarial ...
Capelli, G. +3 more
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First molecular identification of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in continental Portugal [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND : Canine dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria immitis is known to be endemic in continental Portugal. However, information about the transmitting mosquito species is still scarce, with only Culex theileri identified to date, albeit with L1-2 ...
António de Almeida +6 more
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