title: Rare case of disseminated cysticercosis and taeniasis in a Japanese traveler after returning from India.
abstract: We report disseminated cysticercosis concurrent with taeniasis in a 31-year-old male Japanese, who had visited India three times and stayed for 1 month each time during the previous 1 year. The patient presented increasing numbers of subcutaneous nodules and expelled proglottids, although numerous cysts were also found in the brain in imaging findings, though no neurological symptoms were observed. Histopathological and serological findings strongly indicated cysticercosis. We found taeniid eggs in his stool by microscopic examination and revealed them as the Indian haplotype of Taenia solium by mitochondrial DNA analysis. We concluded that disseminated cysticercosis was caused by the secondary autoinfection with eggs released from the tapeworm carrier himself. After confirming the absence of adult worms in the intestine by copro-polymerase chain reaction, the patient was successfully treated with albendazole at a dose of 15 mg/kg/day for 28 days. Subcutaneous and intracranial lesions had completely disappeared by the end of the treatment period.
authors: Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors: Ken-ichiro
authors: K
authors: Kobayashi
authors: Fukumi
authors: F
authors: Nakamura-Uchiyama
authors: Takeshi
authors: T
authors: Nishiguchi
authors: Kenichi
authors: K
authors: Isoda
authors: Yasumasa
authors: Y
authors: Kokubo
authors: Katsuhiko
authors: K
authors: Ando
authors: Masaki
authors: M
authors: Katurahara
authors: Yasuhito
authors: Y
authors: Sako
authors: Tetsuya
authors: T
authors: Yanagida
authors: Akira
authors: A
authors: Ito
authors: Sentaro
authors: S
authors: Iwabuchi
authors: Kenji
authors: K
authors: Ohnishi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D018509:DNA, Helminth / Q000235:genetics; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D059906:Neuroimaging; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D041201:Taenia solium; D013622:Taeniasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014195:Travel
chemical_list: D018509:DNA, Helminth
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