Giant kidney worm: novel report of Dioctophyma renale in the kidney of a dog in Greece
Dioctophyma renale is the largest nematode that infects domestic mammals and is the aetiologic agent of a serious renal disease, dioctophymatosis. It has an indirect life cycle with carnivores serving as final hosts and earthworms as intermediate hosts. The parasite can infect humans with signifi ca...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020-01-01
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| Series: | Helminthologia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0008 |