Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis as Causative Agent of Human Ocular Filariosis after Travel to India

We report a human case of ocular Dirofilaria infection in a traveler returning to Austria from India. Analysis of mitochondrial sequences identified the worm as Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, a close relative of Dirofilaria repens, which was only recently described in Hong Kong and proposed a...

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Autores principales: Winkler, Stefan, Pollreisz, Andreas, Georgopoulos, Michael, Bagò-Horvath, Zsuzsanna, Auer, Herbert, To, Kelvin Kai-Wang, Krücken, Jürgen, Poppert, Sven, Walochnik, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5547781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28726623
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2308.170423
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Sumario:We report a human case of ocular Dirofilaria infection in a traveler returning to Austria from India. Analysis of mitochondrial sequences identified the worm as Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, a close relative of Dirofilaria repens, which was only recently described in Hong Kong and proposed as a new species.

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