What has happened to heartworm disease in Europe in the last 10 years?

R Morchón, JA Montoya-Alonso, I Rodríguez-Escolar… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heartworm disease caused by Dirofilaria immitis is a vector-borne disease that affects
canids and felids, both domestic and wild, throughout the world. It is a chronic disease which …

Canine leishmaniasis in Balkan–A review of occurrence and epidemiology

S Vaselek - Acta Tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
Canine leishmaniasis is a parasitic zoonotic infection of dogs caused by the Leishmania
spp. parasites. In Europe, canine leishmaniasis is among the most important vector-borne …

Occupational risk of cutaneous larva migrans: A case report and a systematic literature review

A Stufano, C Foti, P Lovreglio, P Romita, A De Marco… - 2022 - journals.plos.org
Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) is a parasitic zoonosis of warm tropical and subtropical
areas, although autochthonous cases have been increasingly reported in Western …

[HTML][HTML] Serological Survey of Canine Vector-Borne Infections in North-Center Spain

P Pérez Pérez, I Rodríguez-Escolar… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Various factors are currently causing an increase in vector-borne parasitic diseases at
global scale, among them some stand out, such as climatic disturbances derived from global …

[HTML][HTML] Microfilaremic Dirofilaria repens Infection in Patient from Serbia

S Tasić-Otasevic, M Golubović, S Trichei… - Emerging Infectious …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We report a case of Dirofilaria repens infection causing microfilaremia in a patient from
Serbia. Serum samples tested positive for D. repens IgG by ELISA. Our findings and those of …

Dirofilaria immitis: Genotyping Randomly Selected European Clinical Samples and USA Laboratory Isolates with Molecular Markers Associated with Macrocyclic …

E Curry, D Traversa, E Carretón, L Kramer, H Sager… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dirofilaria immitis is a parasitic nematode and causes dirofilariosis, a potentially fatal
pulmonary infection which primarily infects canids. Dirofilariosis infections are controlled via …

Prediction and validation of potential transmission risk of Dirofilaria spp. infection in Serbia and its projection to 2080

I Rodríguez-Escolar… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Animal and human dirofilariosis is a vector-borne zoonotic disease, being one of the most
important diseases in Europe. In Serbia, there are extensive studies reporting the presence …

Dirofilaria sp. and Blood Meal Analysis in Mosquitoes Collected in Vojvodina and Mačva, and the First Report of Setaria tundra (Issaitshikoff & Rajewskaya, 1928) in …

S Šiljegović, T Mouillaud, D Jiolle, D Petrić… - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Parasitic filarial nematodes of the genus Dirofilaria pose a significant
threat to veterinary health, affecting dogs, cats, and occasionally humans. In Serbia …

Consensus statement on the epidemiological situation and expected frequency of canine vector-borne diseases in Serbia

A Potkonjak, S Savić, L Spasojević-Kosić… - Veterinarski …, 2020 - vet-erinar.vet.bg.ac.rs
The current issue of Veterinarski Glasnik (Vol 74, No 2) is dedicated to canine vectorborne
pathogens (VBP) and vector-borne diseases (VBD) in Serbia. All published reviews and …

Heartworm Disease in Jackals: Unusual Location of Dirofilaria immitis

A Penezić, M Kuručki, N Bogdanović, I Pantelić… - Acta Parasitologica, 2022 - Springer
Purpose The knowledge of heartworm disease in free ranging wild canid populations is
limited. As it is very difficult to monitor this disease in live animals, sporadic findings are …