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Ocular Onchocerca infections in two dogs in western United States |
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| Authors: | Eberhard M L Ortega Y Dial S Schiller C A Sears A W Greiner E |
| Institution: | a Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, USA b Veterinary Sciences Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA c ANTECH Diagnostics, Phoenix, AZ, USA d Sears Veterinary Hospital, Lancaster, CA, USA e Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Abstract: | Two dogs, one from California and one from Arizona, were found to have aberrant infections caused by filarial nematodes of the genus Onchocerca. In both cases, the parasites are localized in or near the eye. In one case the worm was located in the cornea and was surgically removed. In the second case, a very marked granulomatous reaction was induced in the retrobulbar space, mimicking an abscess. This eye was enucleated. The worms in both instances were female, and were gravid, i.e. contained microfilariae in utero, indicating that a male worm(s) had been present and mating had occurred. The exact identity of the species of Onchocerca responsible cannot be determined, although the features observed are most like Onchocerca lienalis of cattle. These cases represent the fourth and fifth such cases reported from the US, and are especially interesting because of the unusual location of the worms, the small number of recognized cases, and the similarity to a recent zoonotic human infection. |
| Keywords: | Dog Onchocercosis Eye Pathology |
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