Persistent Microfilaremia Caused by Dirofilaria asiatica Infection in 2-Year-Old Child, Sri Lanka, 2024.

Authors

Ushani Atapattu, Indeewarie E Gunaratna, Lucas G Huggins, Murali Vallipuranathan, Lakmini Liyanage, Harsha K Narammalage, Nipuni Shilpeswarage, Udayi B Gunawardana, S T A Prasanga Serasinghe, Vito Colella

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Emerging infectious diseases. Volume 32. Issue 11. Pages 1890-1892.

Abstract

Filarial nematodes cause significant illness worldwide, including lymphatic and subcutaneous filariases in tropical regions. Dirofilaria asiatica is a recently described canine filarioid increasingly implicated in zoonotic human infections. Here, we report a patent infection in a child in Sri Lanka who had persistent microfilaraemia after 2 rounds of diethylcarbamazine treatment.

PMID:
42912415
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 24 Oct 2026.

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