Animals Involved
Dogs, cats, other mammals especially carnivores, mustelids, primates are definitive hosts (mainly patent
in dogs and wild canids); mosquitoes are intermediate hosts
Known Distributions
Worldwide
Probable Means of Spreading
Bite of infected mosquitoes
Clinical Manifestations in People
Fever, cough acutely, larvae result in infarct or coin lesion in the lungs; often asymptomatic; rarely involves eye or other body sites