Human Pulmonary Dirofilariasis in the United States: a Critical Review *

Ciferri, Flavio

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1982.31.302

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“…The patients vary in age between 27 and 66 years, the elderly being predominant, in line with the findings in the USA (Gershwin et al, 1974;Dayal and Neafie, 1975;Ciferri, 1982;Ro et al, 1989). cer (Ro et al, 1989).…”

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“…H uman pulmonary dirofilariasis (HPD) is a helminthic zoonosis that came to light 33 years ago (Dashiell, 1961) and of which more then 160 cases have since been reported, mostly in the USA (Ciferri, 1982;Ro et al, 1989;Asimacopoulos et al, 1992) and Japan (Makiya et al, 1987;Makiya, 1990). It immediately attracted atten tion on account of its possibly being mistaken at Xray for lung cancer.…”

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Pulmonary dirofilariasis in man: a new italian case. review of the european literature

Pampiglione

Maschio²,

Pagan³

et al. 1994

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Pulmonary dirofilariasis in man: a new italian case. review of the european literature

Pampiglione

Maschio²,

Pagan³

et al. 1994

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“…closely related to D. immitis 16 has recently been reported from Brazil in a region where canine dirofilariasis by D. immitis is endemic; prevalence of microfilaramic dogs up to 32.45%. 17 A relationship between human dirofilariasis and endemicity of D. immitis in dog populations has been suggested in some areas of the United States 18 and Brazil. …”

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Human Ocular Infection with Dirofilaria repens (Railliet and Henry, 1911) in an Area Endemic for Canine Dirofilariasis

Otranto¹,

Brianti²,

Gaglio³

et al. 2011

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. Dirofilaria repens , which is usually found in canine subcutaneous tissues, is the main causative agent of human dirofilariasis in the Old Word. However, a relationship between animal and human cases of dirofilariasis caused by D. repens in a given area has never been demonstrated. The uneven distribution of D. repens in provinces in Sicily, Italy represented the foundation for this study. We report a human case of ocular infection with D. repens from Trapani Province, where canine dirofilariasis is endemic. The nematode was morphologically and molecularly identified and surgical removal of the parasite was documented. The relationship between the prevalence of D. repens in dogs and the occurrence of human cases of ocular dirofilariasis is discussed on the basis of a review of the historical literature.

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“…As regards geographical distribution, D. immitis occasionally causes human infections in the Mediterranean region of the European Union (Jelinek et al, 1996;Muro et al, 1999), and human dirofilariosis cases predominantly occur in the Americas, Japan, and Australia. Several human medical aspects of dirofilariosis caused by D. immitis have been described in the literature (Moorhouse, 1978;Merrill et al, 1980;Ciferri, 1982;Theis et al, 2001;Simón et al, 2005). Human dirofilariosis cases are predominantly caused by D. repens in most countries of Eurasia (Simón et al, 2012).…”

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“…Many studies have analysed dirofilariosis caused by D. immitis Leidy (1856) from the veterinary (Webber and Hawking, 1955;Newton and Wright, 1956), human medical (Ciferri, 1982;Muro et al, 1999;Pampiglione et al, 2009), parasitological andvector-epidemiological (Kartman, 1953;Ludlam et al, 1970;Labarthe et al, 1998;Cancrini et al, 2003), geographical (Bowman et al, 2009) and even climatic points of view. Despite the fact that in human D. immitis cases the parasites do not develop into adults in most cases, immature worms have been rarely found in humans (Muro et al, 1999).…”

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Impacts of urbanisation level and distance from potential natural mosquito breeding habitats on the abundance of canine dirofilariosis

Tràjer

Rengei

Farkas-Iványi

et al. 2016

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica

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Dirofilariosis is an emerging mosquito-borne veterinary and medical problem in the Northern hemisphere. The ecological investigation of 56 canine dirofilariosis cases in new endemic locations was performed in Szeged, Hungary. The aim was to analyse the influence of the spatial patterns of dog abundance and the potential mosquito breeding habitats on the spatial occurrence patterns of dirofilariosis in the city of Szeged. The limnoecological characterisation was based on the fluvial habitat classification of Amoros of natural water bodies; the built environment was evaluated using the UrbanisationScore urbanisation intensity measuring software. Dirofilaria immitis accounted for 51% and D. repens for 34.3% of the dirofilariosis cases, and in 20% of the cases only the Knott's test was positive. It was concluded that most of the cases were related to locations with a medium to high urbanisation index, although the proximity of mosquito-bearing waters also played an important role in the observed spatial infection patterns. We found that the distance from potential mosquito habitats and the urbanisation intensity determine the abundance of dirofilariosis in urban environments. Key words: Dirofilaria immitis, Dirofilaria repens, urbanisation intensity, Amoros classificationDirofilariosis caused by Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens is one of the most important emerging parasitic, mosquito-borne diseases in the oceanic and temperate climate areas of Europe (Raccurt, 1999;

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Human Pulmonary Dirofilariasis in the United States: a Critical Review *

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Pulmonary dirofilariasis in man: a new italian case. review of the european literature

Pulmonary dirofilariasis in man: a new italian case. review of the european literature

Human Ocular Infection with Dirofilaria repens (Railliet and Henry, 1911) in an Area Endemic for Canine Dirofilariasis

Impacts of urbanisation level and distance from potential natural mosquito breeding habitats on the abundance of canine dirofilariosis

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