Human dirofilariasis due to Dirofilaria repens in Ukraine, an emergent zoonosis: Epidemiological report of 1465 cases

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 592-598

  Sałamatin, Rusłan V ^a,b   Pavlikovska, Tamara M ^c   Sagach, Olga S ^c   Nikolayenko, Svitlana M ^c   Kornyushin, Vadim V ^d   Kharchenko, Vitaliy O ^d   Masny, Aleksander ^b   Cielecka, Danuta ^a,b   Konieczna Sałamatin, Joanna ^e   Conn, David Bruce ^f   Golab, Elzbieta ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Ministry of Health of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^d SCHMALHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^f BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirofilaria repens; Dirofilariasis; epidemiology; Europe; human; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIROFILARIA REPENS; DIROFILARIASIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TOPOGRAPHY; UKRAINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DIROFILARIA REPENS; DIROFILARIASIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UKRAINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890503532     PISSN: 12302821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11686-013-0187-x     Document Type: Article

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