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PARASITES & VECTORS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-226
Keywords
Mosquito; Dirofilariosis; Anopheles maculipennis; Anopheles algeriensis
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- Bayer Animal Health Austria
- Austrian Academia Jubilee Fund research grant [H-2611/2011]
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Background: In Europe animal and human infections due to Dirofilaria repens are increasing. Findings: In a nationwide screening for filarioid parasites in Austria, 7,632 mosquitoes were collected from June till October 2012 and divided into 437 pools according to same trapping date and sight and mosquito species. For the molecular detection, a real-time PCR approach was followed by conventional PCR. D. repens was detected in the villages Moerbisch and Rust, Burgenland in one Anopheles maculipennis group and one Anopheles algeriensis species pool, respectively. Conclusions: The geographical distribution of the two positive pools points to the invasion of D. repens from Eastern neighboring countries. The finding of D. repens in mosquito vectors suggests the occurrence of the causative agent for cutaneous dirofilariosis in Austria.
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