Table 2.

Epidemiological characteristics of human infection with D. repens in adult (L5) and microfilarial (L1) stage (chart review of the world literature). Ref – reference.

Ref	Year	Age	Sex	Country	Travelling history	Immunological status
[17]	1992	53	Female	Italy	Unknown	Malignancy
[18]	1994	50	Male	France	Corsica	Malignancy
[16]	1998	70	Male	Greece	None	Immunocompetent
[12]	2004	60	Male	Russia	None	Immunocompetent
[13]	2005	62	Male	Hungary	None	Malignancy
[19]	2007	40	Male	Iran	None	Immunocompetent
[23]	2009	40	Male	Serbia	None	Immunocompetent
[23]	2009	21	Male	Serbia	None	Immunocompetent
[15]	2009	45	Male	Germany	India; Sri Lanka	Immunocompetent
[22]	2013	63	Female	Russia	Southeast Asia	Immunocompetent
[14]	2013	28	Female	Ukraine	Unknown	Unknown
[14]	2013	65	Female	Ukraine	Unknown	Unknown
[24]	2014	62	Male	India	Unknown	Immunocompetent
[26]	2015	38	Female	France	Tunisia	Immunocompetent
[21]	2016	30	Female	Italy	India; Australia	Immunocompetent
[5]	2016	17–61	Unknown	Czech Republic	Hungary; Slovakia; Croatia	Unknown
[25]	2017	70	Female	France	New Caledonia	Immunocompetent
[8]	2018	28	Male	Poland	None	Immunocompetent
[7]	2018	76	Male	Belgium	Senegal	Diabetes mellitus
[20]	2020	56	Female	Austria	Greece; India	Immunocompetent
[27]	2021	79	Male	Germany	Sri Lanka	Unknown
⁎	2021	17	Male	Croatia	None	Immunocompetent

^⁎current study.