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Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania
BACKGROUND: Dermatobia hominis (Diptera: Oestridae: Cuterebrinae) is a parasite with an important zoonotic and economical impact in the cattle industry, distributed in Central and South America, inhabiting wooded areas along rivers and lowlands. It infests mammals including humans. Lately, there has...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32731887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04264-2 |
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author | Deak, Georgiana Ionică, Angela Monica Nădășan-Cozma, Giulia Mihalca, Andrei Daniel |
author_facet | Deak, Georgiana Ionică, Angela Monica Nădășan-Cozma, Giulia Mihalca, Andrei Daniel |
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description | BACKGROUND: Dermatobia hominis (Diptera: Oestridae: Cuterebrinae) is a parasite with an important zoonotic and economical impact in the cattle industry, distributed in Central and South America, inhabiting wooded areas along rivers and lowlands. It infests mammals including humans. Lately, there has been a growing trend for people to travel on holidays with their pet dog and also international trade of dogs has increased significantly in the last two decades. Hence, the risk of importation of exotic parasites, including agents of myiasis has increased. Dermatobia hominis has been commonly reported as an imported parasite to various countries, mostly as human cases and currently there are only two published cases of D. hominis imported with dogs to Europe. Herein, we report a case of D. hominis infestation in Romania in a dog recently imported from Brazil. METHODS: Larvae were manually extracted from nodules of a 4-month old non-neutered male, Fila Brasileiro in Arad, Romania. The larvae were morphologically identified, and one specimen was characterized molecularly by amplification and sequencing of a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene (cox1). RESULTS: All larvae were morphologically identified as L3 of Dermatobia hominis. The BLAST analysis revealed a 98.81% nucleotide similarity to two D. hominis isolates from Brazil. The sequence was deposited in the GenBank database under the accession number MT364820. CONCLUSIONS: The travel history of dogs is an important part of the veterinary anamnesis questions and should be thoroughly conducted in the daily practice. Also, prior to and after the importation of dogs from tropical regions, a thorough check of the body surface to detect the presence of nodules is recommended. [Image: see text] |
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spelling | pubmed-73926692020-08-04 Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania Deak, Georgiana Ionică, Angela Monica Nădășan-Cozma, Giulia Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: Dermatobia hominis (Diptera: Oestridae: Cuterebrinae) is a parasite with an important zoonotic and economical impact in the cattle industry, distributed in Central and South America, inhabiting wooded areas along rivers and lowlands. It infests mammals including humans. Lately, there has been a growing trend for people to travel on holidays with their pet dog and also international trade of dogs has increased significantly in the last two decades. Hence, the risk of importation of exotic parasites, including agents of myiasis has increased. Dermatobia hominis has been commonly reported as an imported parasite to various countries, mostly as human cases and currently there are only two published cases of D. hominis imported with dogs to Europe. Herein, we report a case of D. hominis infestation in Romania in a dog recently imported from Brazil. METHODS: Larvae were manually extracted from nodules of a 4-month old non-neutered male, Fila Brasileiro in Arad, Romania. The larvae were morphologically identified, and one specimen was characterized molecularly by amplification and sequencing of a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene (cox1). RESULTS: All larvae were morphologically identified as L3 of Dermatobia hominis. The BLAST analysis revealed a 98.81% nucleotide similarity to two D. hominis isolates from Brazil. The sequence was deposited in the GenBank database under the accession number MT364820. CONCLUSIONS: The travel history of dogs is an important part of the veterinary anamnesis questions and should be thoroughly conducted in the daily practice. Also, prior to and after the importation of dogs from tropical regions, a thorough check of the body surface to detect the presence of nodules is recommended. [Image: see text] BioMed Central 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392669/ /pubmed/32731887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04264-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Deak, Georgiana Ionică, Angela Monica Nădășan-Cozma, Giulia Mihalca, Andrei Daniel Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania |
title | Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania |
title_full | Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania |
title_fullStr | Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania |
title_full_unstemmed | Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania |
title_short | Dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from Brazil to Romania |
title_sort | dermatobia hominis in a dog imported from brazil to romania |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32731887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04264-2 |
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