A Case Report on Oral Subcutaneous Dirofilariasis

Dirofilariasis is an uncommon zoonotic parasitic infection affecting human. The natural hosts for this nematode are animals such as dogs, cats, foxes, jackals, and raccoons. This disease is endemic in South Eastern United States, Australia, Europe, and Central and Southern Asia. Dirofilaria immitis...

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Autores principales: Jayasinghe, R. D., Gunawardane, S. R., Sitheeque, M. A. M., Wickramasinghe, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4697078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26858848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/648278
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author Jayasinghe, R. D.
Gunawardane, S. R.
Sitheeque, M. A. M.
Wickramasinghe, S.
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description Dirofilariasis is an uncommon zoonotic parasitic infection affecting human. The natural hosts for this nematode are animals such as dogs, cats, foxes, jackals, and raccoons. This disease is endemic in South Eastern United States, Australia, Europe, and Central and Southern Asia. Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens are the common mosquito borne filarial nematodes that cause infection. Several species of mosquitos including Mansonia uniformis, M. annulifera, and Aedes aegypti are the potential vectors for this disease in Sri Lanka. Two rare cases of dirofilariasis presenting as facial and intraoral lumps are presented.
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spelling pubmed-46970782016-02-08 A Case Report on Oral Subcutaneous Dirofilariasis Jayasinghe, R. D. Gunawardane, S. R. Sitheeque, M. A. M. Wickramasinghe, S. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Dirofilariasis is an uncommon zoonotic parasitic infection affecting human. The natural hosts for this nematode are animals such as dogs, cats, foxes, jackals, and raccoons. This disease is endemic in South Eastern United States, Australia, Europe, and Central and Southern Asia. Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens are the common mosquito borne filarial nematodes that cause infection. Several species of mosquitos including Mansonia uniformis, M. annulifera, and Aedes aegypti are the potential vectors for this disease in Sri Lanka. Two rare cases of dirofilariasis presenting as facial and intraoral lumps are presented. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4697078/ /pubmed/26858848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/648278 Text en Copyright © 2015 R. D. Jayasinghe et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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