Pampiglione S, Bortoletti G, Fossarello M, Maccioni A
Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria, Università di Bologna.
Pathologica. 1996 Dec;88(6):472-7.
Four new cases of Human Dirofilariasis in Sardinia are described: I subconjunctival and 3 subcutaneous. The patients were men in 3 cases and woman in the other one. The age of the subjects varied from 35 to 58 years. The parasite, Dirofilaria repens, was in all the cases a female. From the review of the literature only 3 other cases were reported in the island. Due to the diffuse presence of both the causal agent, D. repens, in dogs and many species of Culicidae that can transmit the infection to man, it is possible that human cases are more common than reported, many cases passing undiagnosed or simply not published.
本文描述了撒丁岛4例人体恶丝虫病新病例：1例结膜下感染，3例皮下感染。患者中3例为男性，1例为女性。患者年龄在35岁至58岁之间。所有病例中的寄生虫均为雌性链尾恶丝虫。通过文献回顾，该岛仅另有3例病例报告。由于致病因子链尾恶丝虫在犬类以及许多可将感染传播给人类的库蚊属物种中广泛存在，因此人体病例可能比报告的更为常见，许多病例未得到诊断或根本未被发表。
