Neurocysticercosis: assessing where the infection was acquired from.
Histopathological specimen of a neurocysticercosis patient, who had been living in several endemic countries, was retrospectively analyzed for assessing the origin of the infection. Mitochondrial DNA analysis strongly suggested that the patient became infected with the parasite in Nepal at least 10 years before the onset of the disease.
Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical College, Hokkaido, Japan. yanagida@asahikawa-med.ac.jp
Tetsuya
T
Yanagida
Izumi
I
Yuzawa
Durga D
DD
Joshi
Yasuhito
Y
Sako
Minoru
M
Nakao
Kazuhiro
K
Nakaya
Nobuyuki
N
Kawano
Hidehiro
H
Oka
Kiyotaka
K
Fujii
Akira
A
Ito
D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology*; D003552:Cysticercus; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009390:Nepal; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D041201:Taenia solium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014195:Travel; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial