ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Case Report: Successful Treatment of a Patient with Microfilaremic Dirofilariasis Using Doxycycline.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Human Dirofilariasis Caused by Dirofilaria repens in Sri Lanka from 1962 to 2020.Acta parasitologica · 2022Pooled it
- Human dirofilariosis in Austria: the past, the present, the future.Parasites & vectors · 2021Pooled it
- The history of Wolbachia and heartworm.Parasites & vectors · 2026Review
- Not a Dead-End Host: First Confirmed Persistent Microfilaremia in HumanMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Pulmonary presentation and coil marcation of dirofilaria lung coin nodes - case report.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2025Article
- Case report: Dirofilarial infection of the face.IDCases · 2025Article
- Lesion on the right testicle of 21-year-old patient.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Human Subcutaneous Dirofilariasis Behind a Blepharoconjunctivitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Cureus · 2024Article
- First case of Dirofilaria hongkongensis infection in Germany presenting as a breast tumour.Journal of travel medicine · 2023Article
- Severe and Rare Case of Human Dirofilaria repens Infection with Pleural and Subcutaneous Manifestations, Slovenia.Emerging infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Clinicopathological study of parasitic lesions of the eye and ocular adnexa in a tertiary care ophthalmic center in South India.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2022Article
- Review
- Recurrent Swelling and Microfilaremia Caused by Dirofilaria repens Infection after Travel to India.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Case Studies of Severe Microfilaremia in Four Dogs Naturally Infected WithFrontiers in veterinary science · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
We report the case of a 56-year-old woman with microfilaremic dirofilariasis due to
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