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Gastrointestinal helminth infections and ectoparasitism in wild rodents along wildlife-human interfaces in Tanzania. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Background: Gastrointestinal parasites pose a significant threat to human and domestic animal health across Africa. Despite numerous studies on ectoparasitism and endoparasitism in small mammals across different regions of the continent, the ecological ...
Msoffe VT, Thomas CA, Rija AA, Nzalawahe J, Katakweba AS, Misinzo G, Mnyone LL.   +6 more
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First human infection with Onchocerca takaokai (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) presenting as creeping eruption in Japan. [PDF]

Parasite
Zoonotic onchocerciasis is a rare human infection caused by Onchocerca species that normally parasitize non-human mammals. In Japan, all previously reported human cases have been attributed to Onchocerca japonica and have presented as localized, non-migratory subcutaneous nodules.
Ikenaga E, Nagayasu E, Hasegawa H, Murota H, Kuwatsuka Y.   +4 more
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Thelazia callipaeda (Nematoda: Spirurida) infections in 2 wildlife species, Prionailurus bengalensis and Nyctereutes procyonoides, in Korea. [PDF]

Parasites Hosts Dis
Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae), a parasitic eye worm causing thelaziasis has been reported in humans and dogs in Korea. However, its occurrence in other potential reservoir hosts, including wild animals, remains unclear. In the present study, we described the 2 cases of thelaziasis from both of feral and captive wild animal in Korea.
Jang J, Park YS, Yun Y, Eom KS, Choe S.
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Zoonotic filariasis and its public health significance: a comprehensive literature review. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Animal filariasis, a group of vector-borne parasitic infections, is a widely significant yet often underreported complex disease affecting a broad range of domestic and wild animals across tropical and subtropical regions.
M R, Rahi M, Saini P.
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Nuclear, mitochondrial, and <i>Wolbachia</i> endosymbiont genomes of <i>Onchocerca lupi</i>, Portugal. [PDF]

mSphere
Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi (Spirurida, Onchocercidae) has attracted the interest of the scientific community worldwide, by causing severe ocular infections in domestic animals (dogs, cats) and can infect wild carnivores (wolves, coyotes), as well as humans.
Latrofa MS, Urso I, Notario E, Gissi C, Maia C, Marzano M, Pesole G, Otranto D.   +7 more
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Pathological findings associated with Dipetalonema spp. (Spirurida, Onchocercidae) infection in two species of Neotropical monkeys from Brazil. [PDF]

Parasitol Res, 2023
AbstractAmong vector-borne helminths, filarioids of the genus Dipetalonema (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) localize in several tissues and body cavities of several animal species, causing mild to moderate lesions. The pathological findings associated with Dipetalonema spp.
Ehlers LP, Slaviero M, De Lorenzo C, Fagundes-Moreira R, de Souza VK, Perles L, Baggio-Souza V, Bezerra-Santos MA, Modrý D, Benovics M, Panziera W, Driemeier D, Pavarini SP, Soares JF, Otranto D, Sonne L.   +15 more
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Thelaziasis in an urban woman in Beijing: a case report and literature review. [PDF]

BMC Ophthalmol
Background Thelaziasis is a zoonotic disease mainly caused by Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae, Thelazia), which can cause mild to severe signs and lesions, such as foreign body sensation, itching, tearing, eye pain, conjunctival bleeding ...
Tan S, Zhang P, Li F, Li Y, Liu Z, Li X.
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Epidemiological analysis of Dirofilaria immitis (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) infecting pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris, Linnaeus, 1758) in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci
Dirofilaria immitis infection is routinely detected in dogs during veterinary care in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Parasitological tests for the detection of this infection are routinely performed only in areas with a high prevalence. Baixada Fluminense, a region in Rio de Janeiro, was considered heartworm-free until local veterinarians ...
de Andrade Vieira VM, da Silva PP, Paulino ÉT, do Amaral Fernandes P, Labarthe N, Gazêta GS, de Moraes Neto AHA.   +6 more
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The new cases of thelaziosis on the Balkan Peninsula [PDF]

Veterinarski Glasnik, 2020
Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae), known as oriental eyeworm, is a parasite infesting the eyes of many domestic and wild carnivores which can also cause human infections. Due to the fact that infections by T.
Tasić-Otašević Suzana, Savić Sara, Momčilović Stefan, Trenkić Marija, Diakou Anastasia   +4 more
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Ovarian Filariasis in a Wild Southern Tamandua (Tamanduatetradactyla; Mammalia: Myrmecophagidae)

Pathogens, 2022
Knowledge of reproductive health in wild southern tamanduas (Tamandua tetradactyla; Mammalia: Myrmecophagidae) is fragmentary. During necropsies of roadkill xenarthran species in Brazil, a case of ovarian filariasis in an adult female southern tamandua ...
Lilja Fromme, Débora Regina Yogui, Mario Henrique Alves, Josué Díaz-Delgado, Arnaud Leonard Jean Desbiez, André Luis Quagliatto Santos, Juliana Mariotti Guerra, Marion Langeheine, Ursula Siebert, Ralph Brehm, José Luiz Catão-Dias, Pedro Enrique Navas-Suárez   +11 more
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