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PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2020.102117
Keywords
Human; Dirofilaria hongkongensis; Subcutaneous; Recurrent; Zoonosis; Sequencing
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- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the Ministry of Education of China
- High Level Hospital-Summit Program in Guangdong, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital
- Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen [SZSM201911014]
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In 2012, a novel canine Dirofilaria species, D. hongkongensis was identified in Hong Kong that caused human diseases and subsequently reported in an Austrian traveller returning from the Indian subcontinent. Here we present a case of human infection by D. hongkongensis manifested as recurrent shoulder mass. Diagnosis was achieved by cox1 gene sequencing of the excised specimen. The case illustrated that parasitic infection represents an important differential diagnosis for musculoskeletal lesions.
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