Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany

A 12-year old Elo dog was presented with recurring symptoms of conjunctivitis in November 2019. A single whitish nematode was found upon inspection of the eye and identified as a Thelazia callipaeda male. The morphological identification of the eye worm was supported by analysis of a partial cytochr...

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Autores principales: Lebedewa, Sophia L., Tkocz, Kevin, Clausen, Peter-Henning, Nijhof, Ard M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Helminthology - Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33048206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06920-z
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author Lebedewa, Sophia L.
Tkocz, Kevin
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Nijhof, Ard M.
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description A 12-year old Elo dog was presented with recurring symptoms of conjunctivitis in November 2019. A single whitish nematode was found upon inspection of the eye and identified as a Thelazia callipaeda male. The morphological identification of the eye worm was supported by analysis of a partial cytochrome c oxidase I (cox1) gene sequence. The dog lived in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, and had not visited regions known to be endemic for T. callipaeda. This suggests that a local transmission cycle of this zoonotic nematode may exist in Germany.
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spelling pubmed-77045042020-12-03 Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany Lebedewa, Sophia L. Tkocz, Kevin Clausen, Peter-Henning Nijhof, Ard M. Parasitol Res Helminthology - Short Communication A 12-year old Elo dog was presented with recurring symptoms of conjunctivitis in November 2019. A single whitish nematode was found upon inspection of the eye and identified as a Thelazia callipaeda male. The morphological identification of the eye worm was supported by analysis of a partial cytochrome c oxidase I (cox1) gene sequence. The dog lived in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, and had not visited regions known to be endemic for T. callipaeda. This suggests that a local transmission cycle of this zoonotic nematode may exist in Germany. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-10-13 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7704504/ /pubmed/33048206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06920-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This 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/.
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title Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany
title_full Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany
title_fullStr Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany
title_full_unstemmed Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany
title_short Suspected autochthonous Thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern Germany
title_sort suspected autochthonous thelazia callipaeda infection in a dog in northern germany
topic Helminthology - Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704504/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06920-z
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