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Giant Kidney Worm: Novel Report of Dioctophyma Renale in the Kidney of a Dog in Greece

Dioctophyma renale is the largest nematode that infects domestic mammals and is the aetiologic agent of a serious renal disease, dioctophymatosis. It has an indirect life cycle with carnivores serving as final hosts and earthworms as intermediate hosts. The parasite can infect humans with signifi ca...

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Autores principales: Angelou, A., Tsakou, K., Mpranditsas, K., Sioutas, G., Moores, D. Anderson, Papadopoulos, E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sciendo 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6996256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32063739
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0008