Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis as Causative Agent of Human Ocular Filariosis after Travel to India.

Autor: Winkler S, Pollreisz A, Georgopoulos M, Bagò-Horvath Z, Auer H, To KK, Krücken J, Poppert S, Walochnik J
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Emerging infectious diseases [Emerg Infect Dis] 2017 Aug; Vol. 23 (8), pp. 1428-1431.
DOI: 10.3201/eid2308.170423
Abstrakt: 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.
Databáze: MEDLINE