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Humans are accidental dead-end hosts of the parasites, and the infection is mainly asymptomatic. Here, we report the case of a 54-year-old Thai woman who experienced a painful left shoulder nodule and eosinophilia for 1 month. An excisional biopsy of the nodule revealed a degenerated filarial nematode compatible with adult females of the\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Dirofilaria<\/jats:italic>\n                      species. Molecular identification of the partial 12 mt rRNA gene of the worm confirmed that the causative species was\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">D. repens<\/jats:italic>\n                      , a zoonotic filariasis that causes subcutaneous dirofilariasis in dogs and cats. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first reported case of subcutaneous dirofilariasis caused by\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">D. repens<\/jats:italic>\n                      in Thailand. 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