Peri-Orbital Human Dirofilariosis: A Pitfall for Experimental ELISA
The dog nematodes Dirofilaria immitis (D. immitis) and D. repens, well known as zoonotic agents, can infect humans in whom they usually produce abortive infections or immature worms. Dirofilarioses, asymptomatic in most patients and suspected only when the worm reaches surface locations or imaging detects coin lesions, are underdiagnosed because bo...
By GABRIELLA CANCRINI, SIMONA GABRIELLI, SUZANA OTAŠEVIĆ, NATAŠA MILADINOVIĆ-TASIĆ, ALEKSANDAR TASIĆ, JOVANA ĐORĐEVIĆ