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Tropical diseases

Dirofilariasis

The dog heart worm, D. immitis, can infect man. Pulmonary infarction may result. The worm usually presents radiologically as a small solitary dens e lesion on a chest radiograph which may eventually cavitate. The differential diagnosis will include carcinoma, mycotic (fungus) infection and tuberculosis. Accurate diagnosis from a chest radiograph is not possible.

Philip E.S. Palmer, with Stanley P. Bohrer, Carlos Bruguera, Xing-Rong Chen, Mahmoud R. EImeligi, Hassen A. Gharbi, S.B. Lagundoye, M. W. Wachira