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KMID : 0425120150530030329
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2015 Volume.53 No. 3 p.329 ~ p.333
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A Rare Human Case of Dirofilaria repens Infection in the Subcutaneous Posterior Thorax with Molecular Identification
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Le Tran Anh
Vi Thuat Thang
Nguyen Khac Luc
Le Thanh Hoa
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Abstract
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The emergence of Dirofilarial infections in Asia including Vietnam is a clinically significant threat to the community. We here report a rare case of subcutaneous Dirofilaria repens infection on the posterior thoracic wall in a young woman presenting a painful, itchy, and palpable nodule. The adult worm was identified by mitochondrial cox1 and nuclear ITS-2 sequence determination. The diagnosis was additionally confirmed by 16S rRNA sequencing of the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis commonly co-existing with D. repens. This is a rare case of subcutaneous human infection on the posterior thoracic region caused by D. repens.
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KEYWORD
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Dirofilaria repens, subcutaneous Dirofilariasis, molecular identification
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