{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,24]],"date-time":"2025-10-24T13:04:16Z","timestamp":1761311056242,"version":"3.40.5"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"National Library of Serbia","issue":"7-8","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Med pregl","MED PREGLED"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Introduction. Human dirofilariasis is a zoonotic disease caused by\n   Dirofilaria repens and Dirofilaria immitis. It usually presents as a nodular\n   lesion in the lung, subcutaneous tissues or eyes. In animals, dirofilariasis\n   is a very common disease with serious cardiovascular and respiratory\n   manifestations. If adequate therapy is not given at the beginning of the\n   disease, dirofilariasis can lead to animal death. On the contrary, human\n   dirofilariasis is frequently mild, sporadic and asymptomatic disease.\n   Complications in humans are very rare. In Europe, human dirofilariasis is a\n   very rare zoonotic disease even in endemic areas such as Italy, Spain and the\n   Mediterranean. Case report. The authors reported the case of a 43-year-old\n   male with a subcutaneous nodule caused by Dirofilaria repens. The patient who\n   lives in Budva, Montenegro, had a nodule in the right-hand side of the\n   anterior abdominal wall just below the sternum with maximum diameter of 3 cm.\n   His health condition was good and all laboratory analyses were normal. The\n   lesion was surgically removed and the histopathological examination confirmed\n   the parasitic infection by Dirofilaria repens. After surgical excision, the\n   patient was treated with dual antimicrobial therapy (100 mg doxycycline per\n   os twice a day for 28 days and 200 mg albendazole per os twice a day for 10\n   days). Conclusion. It is very difficult to make the diagnosis of a\n   subcutaneous nodule. The difficulties arise in the differential diagnosis\n   because subcutaneous nodules are suspected to be malignant neoplasm or other\n   pathologies such as tuberculosis, fungal infections, sebaceous cysts,\n   hamartomas, abscesses, and so on. Although human dirofilariasis is a rare\n   disease, the number of reported cases has recently been increasing worldwide.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2298\/mpns1508273r","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,30]],"date-time":"2015-07-30T11:10:02Z","timestamp":1438254602000},"page":"273-276","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis: Case report"],"prefix":"10.2298","volume":"68","author":[{"suffix":"P.","given":"Aleksandra","family":"Radovanovic-Spurnic","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9619-8696","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Goran","family":"Stevanovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Belgrade + School of Medicine, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zorica","family":"Dakic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Center of Serbia, Laboratory for Parasitology, Service of Microbiology, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Irena","family":"Ofori-Belic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Center of Serbia, Laboratory for Parasitology, Service of Microbiology, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Igor","family":"Spurnic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mijomir","family":"Pelemis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Belgrade + School of Medicine, Belgrade"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1078","container-title":["Medicinski pregled","Medical review"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,29]],"date-time":"2023-05-29T09:25:07Z","timestamp":1685352307000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/doiserbia.nb.rs\/Article.aspx?ID=0025-81051508273R"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2015]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"7-8","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2015]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2298\/mpns1508273r","relation":{},"ISSN":["0025-8105","1820-7383"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0025-8105"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1820-7383"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2015]]}}}