Human dirofilaria repens infection in Hungary: A case in the spermatic cord and a review of the literature

Pampiglione, S. and Elek, G. and Pálfi, P. and Vetési, Ferenc and Varga, I. (1999) Human dirofilaria repens infection in Hungary: A case in the spermatic cord and a review of the literature. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 47 (1). pp. 77-83. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

Orchiectomy was performed in a 37-year-old Hungarian man exhibiting a swelling in his right testicle. Histology revealed a nodule attached to the spermatic cord, consisting of a granulomatous tissue around sections of a nematode. The worm was identified asDirofilaria repens, an uncommon parasite in Hungary. As the patient had been abroad only in Italy where cases of dirofilariosis in dogs and humans are relatively frequent, it is assumed that the infection might have been acquired in that country 5 years earlier. This is the fifth case, published so far in the world, of such a localization in a human. The human cases of dirofilariosis reported in Hungary are reviewed.

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