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SUBMITTER: Le TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4510683 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Le Tran Anh TA Vi Thuat Thang TT Nguyen Khac Luc KL Le Thanh Hoa TH
The Korean journal of parasitology 20150630 3
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- ...[more]