Veterinary Archives, Vol. 78 No. 6, 2008.
Professional paper
Dirofilaria repens infection in a dog in Croatia - a case report
Petar Džaja
; Department of Forensic Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Beck
; Department of General Pathology and Pathological Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Gordana Kiš
; Veterinary Management, Armed Forces of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Andrea Gudan Kurilj
; Department of General Pathology and Pathological Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Tanja Živičnjak
; Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases with Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Branka Artuković
; Department of General Pathology and Pathological Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Relja Beck
; Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases with Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marko Hohšteter
; Department of General Pathology and Pathological Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Conrado Zuckermann Šoštarić
; Department of General Pathology and Pathological Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Željko Grabarević
; Department of General Pathology and Pathological Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This work presents the finding of Dirofilaria repens microfilariae after necropsy on a dog in Croatia. The cause of death was peritonitis caused by perforation of the intestinal diverticula. Necropsy revealed severe cachexia with a phlegmonous subcutaneous inflammation in the cubital, coxal and carpal regions. The liver cirrhosis with icterus was also seen. Histopathological examination showed numerous microfilariae in all examined organs located predominantly intravascularly, but in the phlegmone, liver, lymph node and lungs they were located in the tissue of the haemorrhage area. Two otherwise healthy dogs which had lived in cohabitation with the necropsied one had been found positive by modified Knott’s test for D. repens microfilariae and were successfully treated with ivermectin.
Keywords
Dirofilaria repens; dog; pathomorphology
Hrčak ID:
31723
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Publication date:
18.12.2008.
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