J 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

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.