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A16-year-old adolescent, who had never travelled outside Gala\u0163i County, was admitted to the hospital\u2019s pediatric department with conjunctival edema, foreign body perception, redness and local pain in the left eye. A parasitological exam identified Dirofilaria repens. The outcome of the condition was favorable. Although canine dirofilariasis is more often encountered by veterinary practices, only few human cases had hither to been reported in Romania, none in Gala\u0163i County. 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