ArticleParasites & vectors2016
First detection of Onchocerca lupi infection in dogs in southern Spain.
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- Confirmed cases of human Onchocerca lupi infection: a systematic review of an emerging threat.Parasitology research · 2021Pooled it
- Prevalence of Onchocerca lupi in shelter dogs from an endemic region of the Southwestern USA.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Autochthonous Onchocerca lupi infection of a domestic dog in Austria.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as putative vectors of zoonoticFrontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Onchocerca lupi in imported dogs in the UK: implications for animal and public health.BMC veterinary research · 2022Article
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- Molecular detection of zoonotic filarioids in Culex spp. from Portugal.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2021Article
- Zoonotic Ocular Onchocercosis byThe Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021Review
- Major antigen and paramyosin proteins as candidate biomarkers for serodiagnosis of canine infection by zoonotic Onchocerca lupi.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- First report ofParasitology · 2020Article
- Molecular Approach for the Diagnosis of Blood and Skin Canine Filarioids.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Zoonotic Implications ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Vector-borne nematode diseases in pets and humans in the Mediterranean Basin: An update.Veterinary world · 2019Review
- A real-time PCR tool for the surveillance of zoonotic Onchocerca lupi in dogs, cats and potential vectors.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Evaluation of oxfendazole in the treatment of zoonotic Onchocerca lupi infection in dogs.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Paramyosin of canine Onchocerca lupi: usefulness for the diagnosis of a neglected zoonotic disease.Parasites & vectors · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundOnchocerca lupi causes ocular pathology of varying severity in dogs from south-western United States, western Europe and northern Asia. This filarioid has also been recognized as a zoonotic agent in Tunisia, Turkey, Iran and the USA, though the information about the biology and epidemiology of this infection is largely unknown. In Europe, O. lupi has been reported in dogs from Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal and Romania and in a cat from Portugal. The present study was designed to establish the occurrence of O. lupi in dogs in southwestern Spain. In the present study a total of 104 dogs of different breed, sex, and age living in a shelter in Huelva (SW Spain) were examined. Skin snip samples were collected using a disposable scalpel in the forehead and inter-scapular regions and stored as aliquots in saline solution (0.5 ml) before light microscopy observation of individual sediments (20 μl) and molecular examination.
resultsOf the 104 dogs examined, 5 (4.8 %) were skin snip-positive for O. lupi: two by microscopy and three by PCR. One of the O. lupi infected dogs showed neurological signs but ocular ultrasonography and/or MRI detected no abnormalities.
conclusionsThis first report of O. lupi infection in dogs in southern Spain expands the range of geographical distribution of this parasite and sounds an alarm bell for practitioners and physicians working in that area.
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