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SUBMITTER: Hodzic A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6426986 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hodžić Adnan A Payer Albert A Duscher Georg Gerhard GG
Parasitology research 20190302 4
Over the last 30 years, Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida: Thelaziidae) has increasingly been reported as an agent of ocular infections in animals and humans throughout Europe. Following the cases of canine ocular thelaziosis recently recorded in Austria for the first time, in the present paper, we describe the first case of T. callipaeda infection in an Austrian cat with no history of traveling abroad. This finding further supports the occurrence of the parasite's autochthonous transmission cycle ...[more]