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2021
The first case of periorbital human dirofilariasis in the Czech Republic
GEBAUER, Jan, Jaroslav ONDRUS, Pavel KULICH, Ladislav NOVOTNÝ, Ruslan SALAMATIN et. al.Basic information
Original name
The first case of periorbital human dirofilariasis in the Czech Republic
Name in Czech
První případ periorbitální dirofilarózy u člověka v České republice
Authors
GEBAUER, Jan (203 Czech Republic), Jaroslav ONDRUS (203 Czech Republic), Pavel KULICH (203 Czech Republic), Ladislav NOVOTNÝ (203 Czech Republic), Ruslan SALAMATIN (616 Poland), Petr HUSA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Adam NOVOBILSKY (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Parasitology Research, New York, Springer, 2021, 0932-0113
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
30310 Parasitology
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 2.383
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14110/21:00121038
Organization unit
Faculty of Medicine
UT WoS
000607178200014
Keywords in English
Clinical symptom; Cytochrome oxidase; Dirofilaria repens; Eye Filaria; Human Microfilaria; Ocular infection
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 2/6/2021 12:28, Mgr. Tereza Miškechová
Abstract
V originále
Dirofilaria repens and Dirofilaria immitis are the most common filarial species affecting humans in Europe. Dirofilaria repens causes subcutaneous or ocular infection, whereas D. immitis is responsible mainly for the pulmonary form. In this report, we present the first human case of periorbital dirofilariasis in the Czech Republic. A 58-year-old woman suffered from an eyelid oedema, redness and pain in the left eye. After excising the parasite from her eyelid, all clinical symptoms disappeared. Based on the morphology and cytochrome oxidase I sequencing, the parasite was identified as D. repens. Histology revealed that the excised worm was female with absent microfilariae in uteri. With respect to the length of the incubation period and the sequence identity with a known Czech isolate, we concluded that D. repens was most likely of autochthonous origin.