TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY & ANIMAL SCIENCES, vol.26, no.5, pp.1189-1191, 2002 (SCI-Expanded)
A female specimen of Dioctophyma renale was recovered from the abdominal cavity of a stray dog necropsied in Istanbul, Turkey on 8 June, 1999. The nematode was 55.5 cm in lenght, with a diameter of 0.7 (0.6-0.8) cm. This is the first case report of D. renale from Turkey.