The former can cause pulmonary dirofilariasis, which may have no symptoms.
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This series of articles discusses giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocariasis, hookworms disease, dirofilariasis ( heartworm ), baylisascariasis, tick and flea transmitted zoonotic diseases affecting people and animals.
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Other parasitic infections, such as the zoonotic filariae, dirofilariasis, ascariasis, strongyloides, visceral larva migrans and hookworm disease, may also be confused with tropical pulmonary eosinophilia because of overlapping clinical features, serological profile and response to diethylcarbamazine.