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.
Yanagida
Tetsuya
T
Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical College, Hokkaido, Japan. yanagida@asahikawa-med.ac.jp
Yuzawa
Izumi
I
Joshi
Durga D
DD
Sako
Yasuhito
Y
Nakao
Minoru
M
Nakaya
Kazuhiro
K
Kawano
Nobuyuki
N
Oka
Hidehiro
H
Fujii
Kiyotaka
K
Ito
Akira
A
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