| [two new human cases of dirofilariasis in sardinia]. | two new human cases of dirofilariasis, both due to dirofilaria (nochtiella) repens, recently occurring in nuoro province (sardinia) on people permanently resident in the island, are described. the parasite was located in one case into the uterine round ligament, in the other it was subconjunctival. some observations about the diagnostic difficulties in the first one and the dramatic symptoms in the second, whose parasite was yet alive during the surgical ablaction, are discussed. these cases are ... | 2004 | 15828433 |
| dirofilariasis due to dirofilaria repens in italy, an emergent zoonosis: report of 60 new cases. | sixty new cases of human dirofilariasis due to dirofilaria repens, occurring in italy between 1990 and 1999, are presented. this is the most extensive case study of this zoonosis reported worldwide by a single study group. the aim is to utilize this large experience to characterize the different histopathological findings in the parasitic lesions in man. | 2001 | 11318900 |
| [palpebral dirofilariasis in man: a case in sardinia]. | human palpebral dirofilariasis: a case in sardinia. one case of human palpebral dirofilariasis, in sardinia, is described. the nematode, dirofilaria repens, during its permanence in the host caused local signs of an allergic type and migrated in the subcutaneous tissues from the left lower eyelid to the neck, the axillary region, the abdominal wall, reappearing in the right lower eyelid, from where it was removed. | 1989 | 2748208 |
| [human dirofilariasis in sardinia: 4 new cases. review of published cases]. | four new cases of human dirofilariasis in sardinia are described: i subconjunctival and 3 subcutaneous. the patients were men in 3 cases and woman in the other one. the age of the subjects varied from 35 to 58 years. the parasite, dirofilaria repens, was in all the cases a female. from the review of the literature only 3 other cases were reported in the island. due to the diffuse presence of both the causal agent, d. repens, in dogs and many species of culicidae that can transmit the infection t ... | 1996 | 9206773 |