The parasite Dirofilaria repens is a roundworm that primarily attacks the subcutaneous tissue of dogs and causes lumps in the skin, swelling, and itching. Dogs, cats, foxes, wolves and martens can ...

The nematode species Dirofilaria repens and Dirofilaria immitis ... "These nematodes also affect people and cats. But they are only able to reproduce in dogs, where they produce offspring that ...

Doctors ultimately gripped the bulge with forceps and, using local anesthesia, pulled out a parasitic worm known as Dirofilaria repens. “The parasite can appear and disappear in few minutes ...

Doctors pulled the worm out and identified it as Dirofilaria repens, a type of nematode that usually affects animals such as dogs and cats. But mosquitoes can pick it up and carry it to people on ...

Doctors ultimately gripped the bulge with forceps and, using some local anesthesia, pulled out a parasitic worm known as Dirofilaria repens. "The parasite can appear and disappear in few minutes ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. File of a previous dirofilaria repens case in a human. (Wikimedia Commons) A Russian woman who watched perplexed as a ...

WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) - First, it appeared as a tiny blemish under the eye. But over the next two weeks, the 32-year-old woman watched it move - snapping photos as it formed bumps above her ...

Until a short while ago, infections with the parasite Dirofilaria repens was regarded as a classical traveler's disease in Austria. Mosquitoes from abroad passed the parasite on to dogs ...

The case — and shocking images — were published Thursday in a report titled "Migrating Dirofilaria repens" in the New England Journal of Medicine, detailing a case in which a woman from Russia ...