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Four Human Cases of Diphyllobothrium latum Infection
Diphyllobothrium latum infections in 4 young Korean men detected from 2008 to 2012 are presented. Three were diagnosed based on spontaneously discharged strobila of the adult worm in their feces, and 1 case was diagnosed by finding the worm at colonoscopy examination in a local clinic. The morphologic characteristics of the gravid proglottid and eggs were consistent with D. latum. All patients ...
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tient clinic for recurrent lower abdominal pain. He did not have any remarkable medical and family history. The cramping abdominal pain was localized around the right lower quadrant region, and he had no other gastrointestinal symptoms. He often ate raw fish, and sometimes his feces contained noodle-like material. Serum chemistries were all within the normal ranges, and the hematologic examinat...
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Diphyllobothriasis is an infection of the small intestine by the broad tapeworm Diphyllobothrium sp. The associated symptomatology is nonspecific, but megaloblastic anemia is a well-described complication. Although the infection is common in temperate regions, descriptions in South America have so far been limited to Chile, Peru, and a few cases in Argentina. This paper presents the first confi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista chilena de infectología
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0716-1018
DOI: 10.4067/s0716-10182014000200013