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- Title
Dirofilaria repens infection as a cause of intensive peripheral microfilariemia in a Polish patient: process description and cases review.
- Authors
Kłudkowska, Matylda; Pielok, Łukasz; Frąckowiak, Krystyna; Masny, Aleksander; Gołąb, Elżbieta; Paul, Małgorzata
- Abstract
Dirofilariasis is a parasitic disease of dogs and other carnivores transmitted mainly by the mosquitoes of the genera Culex, Aedes, Anopheles. Full life cycle of the Dirofilaria nematodes in humans is extremely rarely observed, usually lacking species determination at the molecular level. We report fully documented unusual clinical manifestation of subcutaneous dirofilariasis with intensive microfilariemia in peripheral blood revealed by the Knott's concentration technique. The identification of the Dirofilaria repens nematode was based on typical morphological findings for adult gravid female nematode found in the histopathological preparations. The morphology of microfilariae obtained from patient's peripheral blood was also typical for D. repens. The final identification was confirmed by the molecular analysis of microfilariae collected from the blood.
- Subjects
DIROFILARIA; PARASITIC diseases; MEDICAL parasitology; DOG diseases; VETERINARY medicine
- Publication
Acta Parasitologica, 2018, Vol 63, Issue 3, p657
- ISSN
1230-2821
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ap-2018-0077