of Human Ocular Filariosis after Travel to India

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Winkler, Stefan ; Pollreisz, Andreas ; Georgopoulos, Michael ; Bagò-Horvath, Zsuzsanna ; Auer, Herbert ; To, Kelvin Kai-Wang ; Krücken, Jürgen ; Poppert, Sven ; Walochnik, Julia
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Adult Animals Dirofilaria Dirofilariasis Eye Infections Female Genes, Bacterial Humans Phylogeny Travel-Related Illness
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(8):1428-1431.
• Pubmed ID:
  28726623
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5547781
• Document Type:
  Letter
• Place as Subject:
  Austria ; India
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:10c1dc26a72192d71fe7caed2bab4170a275ba793cfc2ef50f3adc3eb31833ba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47413/cdc_47413_DS1.pdf
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