Human pulmonary dirofilariasis with secondary myocarditis
Abstract Dirofilariasis is a little-known zoonosis, with dogs and cats as definitive hosts. It is caused by nematodes and transmitted by mosquito bites. We report the case of a 67-year-old man with a consumptive syndrome with two subpleural pulmonary opacities. A transthoracic lung biopsy revealed a...
Main Authors: | Andréa Beltrami Doltrário, Natalí Caneli Valim, Ellen Aparecida Pereira Barboza Dellaspora, Gilberto Gambero Gaspar, Fernanda Guioti Puga, Alexandre Todorovic Fabro, Mariângela Ottoboni Brunaldi, Roberto Martinez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
2019-05-01
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Series: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822019000100716&lng=en&tlng=en |
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