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Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi infection in dogs, Greece and Portugal, 2011-2012.


ABSTRACT: Onchocerca lupi infection is reported primarily in symptomatic dogs. We aimed to determine the infection in dogs from areas of Greece and Portugal with reported cases. Of 107 dogs, 9 (8%) were skin snip-positive for the parasite. DNA sequences of parasites in specimens from distinct dog populations differed genetically from those in GenBank.

SUBMITTER: Otranto D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3840859 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi infection in dogs, Greece and Portugal, 2011-2012.

Otranto Domenico D   Dantas-Torres Filipe F   Giannelli Alessio A   Latrofa Maria Stefania MS   Papadopoulos Elias E   Cardoso Luís L   Cortes Helder H  

Emerging infectious diseases 20131201 12


Onchocerca lupi infection is reported primarily in symptomatic dogs. We aimed to determine the infection in dogs from areas of Greece and Portugal with reported cases. Of 107 dogs, 9 (8%) were skin snip-positive for the parasite. DNA sequences of parasites in specimens from distinct dog populations differed genetically from those in GenBank. ...[more]

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