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Morphometric analyses of canine blood microfilariae isolated by the Knott’s test enables Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens species-specific and Acanthocheilonema (syn. Dipetalonema) genus-specific diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Considering the increasing importance of small animals travel medicine and the spread of filariae with zoonotic potential to non-endemic European areas, routine filarial diagnosis in dogs is becoming important. Dirofilaria immitis, D. repens, Acanthocheilonema dracunculoides and A. recon...

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Autores principales: Magnis, Johannes, Lorentz, Susanne, Guardone, Lisa, Grimm, Felix, Magi, Marta, Naucke, Torsten J, Deplazes, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-48