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Zoonotic Subcutaneous Filaria of Undetermined Classification

Katsuhiko Ando^*, Paul C. Beaver, Toshihiko Soga, Teruo Maehara AND Shiro Kitamura^*

^* Department of Medical Zoology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu 514, Japan
Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
Second Department of Pathology, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu 514, Japan
Red Cross Hospital, Ise 516, Japan

A necrotic adult male filaria was found in sections of a dense, fibrous, subcutaneous nodule excised from below the breast of a 61-year-old woman, resident of Mie Prefecture in Honshu, Japan. Owing to its necrotic condition, and to a lack of essential knowledge of the comparative micro-anatomy of filarial worms, a differentiation between Dirofilaria and Dipetalonema species, or member of a related group, was not possible.

Accepted for publication May 2, 1985.