RESEARCH Development of Dirofilaria

lvi an Montarsi et al. Parasites & Vectors (2015) 8:177 DOI 10.1186/s13071-015-0800-ylocalized in a very restricted area of about 6 km2 [12], in35020 Legnaro, Padua, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleBackground Over the recent decades, container-breeding mosquito species belonging to the genus Aedes (Meigen) have fre-quently been recorded far from their place of origin [1]. Some invasive species of Aedes are capable of transmitting viral, bacterial or parasite pathogens of public health con-cern when they establish in previously non- endemic geo-graphic areas [2,3]. A key example is the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus (Skuse) (syn. Stegomyia albopicta) that was first imported to Italy in the early 1990s [4], being later responsible for an outbreak of chikungunya virus in 2007 [5]. The latest invasive container-breeding mosquito intro-duced in Europe was Aedes (Finlaya) koreicus (Edwards)