What is happening outside North America regarding human dirofilariasis?

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 2-3 SPEC. ISS, 2005, Pages 181-189

  Simon F ^a   Lopez Belmonte J ^a   Marcos Atxutegi, C ^a   Morchon R ^a   Martin Pacho J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibody response; Changing distribution; Dirofilaria immitis; Dirofilaria repens; Human dirofilariasis; Wolbachia symbionts

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN;

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; DOG; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUROPE; EYE INJURY; FILARIASIS; HOST; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; LUNG DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; TH1 CELL; UKRAINE; WOLBACHIA; WORM INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; EUROPE; HUMANS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 26044465533     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.03.033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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