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Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis as Causative Agent of Human Ocular Filariosis after Travel to India (2017)

Art

Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Autoren

Winkler, Stefan

Pollreisz, Andreas

Georgopoulos, Michael

Bagò-Horvath, Zsuzsanna

Auer, Herbert

To, Kelvin Kai-Wang

Krücken, Jürgen (WE 13)

Poppert, Sven

Walochnik, Julia

Quelle

Emerging infectious diseases

Bandzählung: 23

Heftzählung: 8

Seiten: 1428 – 1431

ISSN: 1080-6040

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

DOI: 10.3201/eid2308.170423

Pubmed: 28726623

Kontakt

Institut für Parasitologie und Tropenveterinärmedizin

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14163 Berlin
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parasitologie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

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.