[Therapeutic effect of paromomycin sulfate on the 13th case of Mesocestoides lineatus infection found in Japan].
Mesocestoides tapeworm is a common cestode in carnivorous mammals, but human infection with the tapeworm of this genus have been infrequent. We have recently observed the 13th case of human infection with Mesocestoides lineatus in Japan. A 35-year-old man living in Gifu prefecture was admitted to our University Hospital with chief complaints of general fatigue and discharge of cestode segments in his stool. The patient gave a history of drinking blood and eating the raw liver of a snake Agkistrodon halys for medicinal purposes as same as the previous cases of all reported in Japan. The segments were identified as those of M. lineatus. He was treated orally 3 g of paromomycin sulfate. Stool examination after treatment with paromomycin sulfate revealed no evidence of parasitism. The present case may be the 2nd to have been successfully treated with paramomycin sulfate and the 21st case of Mesocestoides tapeworm infection in man described in the literature.
D000328:Adult; D002590:Cestode Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D010303:Paromomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D010303:Paromomycin