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Review
. 2009 Nov 15;134(22):936-8.

[A worm infection in the skin of a dog. First autochthonous Dirofilaria repens infection ofa dog in the Netherlands]

[Article in Dutch]
P A M Overgaauw  1 , E P van Dijk
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  • PMID: 20055026
Review

[A worm infection in the skin of a dog. First autochthonous Dirofilaria repens infection ofa dog in the Netherlands]

[Article in Dutch]
P A M Overgaauw et al. Tijdschr Diergeneeskd. .

Abstract

The history of an 18-month-old English bulldog with a painful lump in the skin on its thigh is described. After opening the nodule a few Dirofilaria repens nematodes were found. Oval-shaped transparent eggs with moving larvae were seen microscopically. The dog was treated with milbemycin and made a complete recovery. The dog had never been abroad, but 6 months earlier in early May had been on a campsite in the middle of the Netherlands where many mosquitoes were present. This is the first described case of an autochthonous D. repens infection of a dog in the Netherlands.

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