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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Emerging Infectious Diseases

Persistent Microfilaremia Caused by Dirofilaria asiatica Infection in 2-Year-Old Child, Sri Lanka, 2024

  • Ushani Atapattu
  • Indeewarie E. Gunaratna
  • Lucas G. Huggins
  • Murali Vallipuranathan
  • Lakmini Liyanage
  • Harsha K. Narammalage
  • Nipuni Shilpeswarage
  • Udayi B. Gunawardana
  • S.T.A. Prasanga Serasinghe
  • Vito Colella
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Abstract

Filarial nematodes cause significant illness worldwide, including lymphatic and subcutaneous filariases in tropical regions. Dirofilaria asiatica is a recently described canine filarioid increasingly implicated in zoonotic human infections. Here, we report a patent infection in a child in Sri Lanka who had persistent microfilaraemia after 2 rounds of diethylcarbamazine treatment.

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@article{atapattu2026persistent,
  title = {{Persistent Microfilaremia Caused by Dirofilaria asiatica Infection in 2-Year-Old Child, Sri Lanka, 2024}},
  author = {Ushani Atapattu and Indeewarie E. Gunaratna and Lucas G. Huggins and Murali Vallipuranathan and Lakmini Liyanage and Harsha K. Narammalage and Nipuni Shilpeswarage and Udayi B. Gunawardana and S.T.A. Prasanga Serasinghe and Vito Colella},
  journal = {Emerging Infectious Diseases},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.3201/eid3211.260739},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3211.260739},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Persistent Microfilaremia Caused by Dirofilaria asiatica Infection in 2-Year-Old Child, Sri Lanka, 2024
AU  - Ushani Atapattu
AU  - Indeewarie E. Gunaratna
AU  - Lucas G. Huggins
AU  - Murali Vallipuranathan
AU  - Lakmini Liyanage
AU  - Harsha K. Narammalage
AU  - Nipuni Shilpeswarage
AU  - Udayi B. Gunawardana
AU  - S.T.A. Prasanga Serasinghe
AU  - Vito Colella
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/30
JO  - Emerging Infectious Diseases
DO  - 10.3201/eid3211.260739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3211.260739
AB  - Filarial nematodes cause significant illness worldwide, including lymphatic and subcutaneous filariases in tropical regions. Dirofilaria asiatica is a recently described canine filarioid increasingly implicated in zoonotic human infections. Here, we report a patent infection in a child in Sri Lanka who had persistent microfilaraemia after 2 rounds of diethylcarbamazine treatment.
SN  - 1080-6040
SN  - 1080-6059
ER  -