[The 15 years' experience of diagnostic of human dirofilariasis.]

The article presents the results of studies of the clinical diagnostic laboratory of the E.I. Martcinovskii institute of medical parasitology, tropical and transmissive diseases related to diagnostic of human dirofilariasis brought in by Dirofilaria repens. During last 15 years, 165 cases were diagnosed. The most of dirofilaria (89.7%) migrated and localized superficially under skin or mucous membrane: on the head in 88 cases and out of them 43.6% in the area of eye-socket, in 25 cases on the body out of them 4 on genitalia, in 35 cases under skin of extremities. In 1 cases dirofilaria migrated to inner organs: 10 in lungs, 4 in pleura, 1 in small intestine, 1 in omentum. In case of pleuropulmonary localization the disease was taking its course under mask of tuberculoma malignant tumor, exudative pleurisy, neoplasm of obscure etiology.