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

Autor: Herbert Auer, Stefan Winkler, Sven Poppert, Jürgen Krücken, Kelvin K. W. To, Andreas Pollreisz, Michael Georgopoulos, Zsuzsanna Bagò-Horvath, Julia Walochnik
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
Adult
Veterinary medicine
dirofilariosis
Epidemiology
Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis
030231 tropical medicine
Eye Infections
India
lcsh:Medicine
parasites
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Dirofilaria infection
Dirofilariasis
worm
parasitic diseases
medicine
Research Letter
Animals
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
ocular filariosis
Phylogeny
Dirofilaria
parasitic infections
biology
fungi
lcsh:R
Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis as Causative Agent of Human Ocular Filariosis after Travel to India
Eye infection
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Virology
eye
Dirofilaria repens
zoonoses
030104 developmental biology
Infectious Diseases
Genes
Bacterial
Austria
Candidatus
Female
Travel-Related Illness
Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 23, Iss 8, Pp 1428-1431 (2017)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: 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.
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