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A Possible Port of Entry into the Eye of Dog during Erratic Canine Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) Parasitism

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, October 2012
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Title
A Possible Port of Entry into the Eye of Dog during Erratic Canine Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) Parasitism
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Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, October 2012
DOI 10.1292/jvms.12-0206
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Mineo HAYASAKI, Mikako UENO, Hiroyasu EJIMA, Akira MUNAKATA, Yukio TAMURA

Abstract

A dog was suspected of suffering from ectopic Dirofilaria immitis infection, because a large white nematode worm was detected in the anterior chamber of the left eye. A cylinder-shaped fibrin sac in the anterior chamber was found in the eye of the dog by slit lamp microscopy. After successful surgical removal of the worm, the corneal wound produced by the keratotomy healed in a short period. The worm was estimated to be extremely young, 5th-stage-immature male D. immitis, equivalent to a 90-120-day-old worm postinfection, by close morphological measurement and an experimental infection study. Thus, an immature worm can exhibit erratic parasitism in a host's eye. The fibrin sac was considered to be a trace of the invasion route, and the cornea may have been the port of entry into the anterior chamber of the eye in the erratic migration of D. immitis.

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Unknown 20 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 15%
Lecturer 2 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Researcher 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Other 3 15%
Unknown 6 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 6 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Unspecified 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 6 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2012.
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#16,721,208
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
#1,214
of 3,546 outputs
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#122,477
of 192,678 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
#7
of 24 outputs
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