Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi infection in dogs, Greece and Portugal, 2011-2012

Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Dec;19(12):2000-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1912.130264.

Abstract

Onchocerca lupi infection is reported primarily in symptomatic dogs. We aimed to determine the infection in dogs from areas of Greece and Portugal with reported cases. Of 107 dogs, 9 (8%) were skin snip-positive for the parasite. DNA sequences of parasites in specimens from distinct dog populations differed genetically from those in GenBank.

Keywords: Greece; Onchocerca lupi; Portugal; dogs; infection; parasites; zoonoses.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Dog Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Dog Diseases / history
  • Dogs
  • Female
  • Genes, Helminth
  • Geography, Medical
  • Greece / epidemiology
  • History, 21st Century
  • Male
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Onchocerca / classification*
  • Onchocerca / genetics*
  • Onchocerciasis / veterinary*
  • Phylogeny
  • Portugal / epidemiology
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Zoonoses / epidemiology*
  • Zoonoses / history

Associated data

  • GENBANK/KC686701
  • GENBANK/KC686702
  • GENBANK/KC686703
  • GENBANK/KC686704