The First Case of Elbow Bursitis Caused by Dirofilaria repens in Humans

Our case report involves a 28-year-old man who was diagnosed with left elbow bursitis. After thorough macroscopic and microscopic examinations and serological and molecular tests, it was found that the inflammation had been caused by a Dirofilaria repens infection. This case report is the world’s fi...

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Autores principales: Kołodziej, Przemysław, Szostakowska, Beata, Jarosz, Bożena, Pojasek, Stanisław, Romak, Marta, Kocki, Janusz, Bogucka-Kocka, Anna
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041353
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz157
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author Kołodziej, Przemysław
Szostakowska, Beata
Jarosz, Bożena
Pojasek, Stanisław
Romak, Marta
Kocki, Janusz
Bogucka-Kocka, Anna
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Szostakowska, Beata
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Kocki, Janusz
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description Our case report involves a 28-year-old man who was diagnosed with left elbow bursitis. After thorough macroscopic and microscopic examinations and serological and molecular tests, it was found that the inflammation had been caused by a Dirofilaria repens infection. This case report is the world’s first documented description.
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spelling pubmed-64831262019-04-30 The First Case of Elbow Bursitis Caused by Dirofilaria repens in Humans Kołodziej, Przemysław Szostakowska, Beata Jarosz, Bożena Pojasek, Stanisław Romak, Marta Kocki, Janusz Bogucka-Kocka, Anna Open Forum Infect Dis Id Case Our case report involves a 28-year-old man who was diagnosed with left elbow bursitis. After thorough macroscopic and microscopic examinations and serological and molecular tests, it was found that the inflammation had been caused by a Dirofilaria repens infection. This case report is the world’s first documented description. Oxford University Press 2019-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6483126/ /pubmed/31041353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz157 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Bogucka-Kocka, Anna
The First Case of Elbow Bursitis Caused by Dirofilaria repens in Humans
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