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It is usually reported in people engaged in recreational water activities in freshwater bodies and in most of cases, it is provoked by bird schistosomes of the genus <jats:italic>Trichobilharzia<\/jats:italic>. In the summer 2017, many cases of dermatitis were recorded in people bathing in the waters of the Albano Lake (Rome, Italy) and a parasitological investigation was carried out in order to ascertain the causative agent of these cases. Snails of the family Lymnaeidae, natural intermediate hosts of bird schistosomes, were collected from lake shallow waters to detect the presence of trematodes of the genus <jats:italic>Trichobilharzia<\/jats:italic>. Pools of maximum 10 snails were placed in Petri dishes, and cercarial emergence was stimulated exposing snails to strong artificial light intensity at 25\u00b0C. Three hundred and thirty\u2010seven snails were collected and screened for the shedding of cercariae. Furcocercariae of the family Schistosomatidae, with a morphology overlapping that of the genus <jats:italic>Trichobilharzia<\/jats:italic>, were detected in seven Petri dishes. Assuming that in each positive Petri dish just one snail was shedding furcocercariae, the minimum infectious rate was 2.1%. Molecular analysis of furcocercariae allowed ascribing them to the species <jats:italic>Trichobilharzia franki<\/jats:italic>. Snails of the species <jats:italic>Radix auricularia <\/jats:italic>were identified as intermediate hosts of the parasite. This is the second record of <jats:italic>T. franki<\/jats:italic> causing cercarial dermatitis in Central Italy, the third in Italy. The 2017 was in Italy exceptionally warm and dry. Trematodes are sensitive to changes in temperature, being cercarial production and emission rates temperature dependent. Small increases in water temperature would speed up parasite development and transmission, leading to a manifold increase in cercarial emergence. Moreover, high temperatures raise chances to acquire the infection, due to increased time spent in water by people.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/zph.12570","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,20]],"date-time":"2019-02-20T02:09:31Z","timestamp":1550628571000},"page":"377-381","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Outbreak of swimmer's itch in Central Italy: Description, causative agent and preventive measures"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"66","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4027-1182","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Claudio","family":"De Liberato","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana \u201cM. 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