TY - JOUR AU - Otranto, Domenico AU - Dantas-Torres, Filipe AU - Giannelli, Alessio AU - Latrofa, Maria Stefania AU - Papadopoulos, Elias AU - Cardoso, Luís AU - Cortes, Helder T1 - Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi Infection in Dogs, Greece and Portugal, 2011–2012 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 12 SP - 2000 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Onchocerca lupi infection is reported primarily in symptomatic dogs. We aimed to determine the infection in dogs from areas of Greece and Portugal with reported cases. Of 107 dogs, 9 (8%) were skin snip–positive for the parasite. DNA sequences of parasites in specimens from distinct dog populations differed genetically from thoses in GenBank. KW - Onchocerca lupi KW - dog KW - zoonoses KW - infection KW - Portugal KW - Greece KW - parasite KW - dogs KW - parasites DO - 10.3201/eid1912.130264 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/12/13-0264_article ER - End of Reference