ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2014
Microfilaria in human subcutaneous dirofilariasis: a case report.
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- Human Dirofilariasis Caused by Dirofilaria repens in Sri Lanka from 1962 to 2020.Acta parasitologica · 2022Pooled it
- Animal and Human Dirofilariasis in India and Sri Lanka: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Selection of new diagnostic markers for Dirofilaria repens infections with the use of phage display technology.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- A case of inguinal hernia associated with atypical Dirofilaria repens infection in a dog.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Immunoproteomic Analysis ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Zoonotic nematodes of wild carnivores.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2019Review
- Dirofilaria repens in dogs and humans in Lithuania.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Dirofilaria repens transmission in southeastern Finland.Parasites & vectors · 2017Article
- Subcutaneous dirofilariosis (Dirofilaria repens): an infection spreading throughout the old world.Parasites & vectors · 2017Review
- Ocular Dirofilariasis: A Rare case from Mumbai, India.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2017Article
- The Mitochondrial Genomes of the Zoonotic Canine Filarial Parasites Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens and Candidatus Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) hongkongensis Provide Evidence for Presence of Cryptic Species.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
- ABC-B transporter genes in Dirofilaria immitis.International journal for parasitology. Drugs and drug resistance · 2016Article
- Dirofilaria repens microfilariae from a human node fine-needle aspirate: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
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Abstract
Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis, a rare zoonosis is being increasingly reported from various parts of the world. Most of the reported cases have lesions in and around the eye. The adult female dirofilariae release microfilaria into the definitive host's blood. Various mosquitoes that serve as intermediate hosts such as Culex, Aedes and Anopheles take up the microfilariae (mf-L1) while feeding on an infected host. Microfilariae develop in the mosquitoes. The transmission to dogs or other hosts including humans occurs through mosquito bite during subsequent blood meal. Humans may be infected as aberrant (accidental) hosts, mainly by D. repens and D. immitis. D. repens usually resides subcutaneously, while D. immitis frequently ends up in the human lung. In human infections usually just one larva develops, which does not reach sexual maturity. In India, almost all reported cases of dirofilariasis in humans have involvement of face in the form of ocular dirofilariasis with a few reports on subcutaneous dirofilariasis. We report a case of human subcutaneous dirofilariasis, from western India, involving leg and showing microfilaria in tissue indicating presence of gravid female dirofilaria (sexual maturity). To the best of our knowledge, it is among rare cases of subcutaneous dirofilariasis wherein microfilariae have developed in human host.
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