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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 8, Pages 555-559Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.04.002
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Dirofilaria immitis; Dirofilaria repens; Emerging disease; Vector; Culiseta annulata
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- MediLabSecure Project [2018/402-247]
- Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health (France)
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A study on the occurrence of Dirofilaria immitis and its vectors was carried out in order to assess the prevalence of the disease in dogs in previously non-endemic areas of southern Italy. Blood samples (n = 385) and mosquitoes (n = 1540) were collected in two dog shelters and analysed by Knott's test and duplex real-time PCR, respectively. Dirofilaria immitis was the most prevalent filarioid (44.2%), while Culex pipiens was the most prevalent mosquito species (68.8%). This high prevalence of D. immitis infection confirms this location as one of the most hyperendemic foci of dirofilariosis in Europe. (C) 2020 Australian Society for Parasitology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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