Taenia: An Uninvited Guest

Shafaghi, Afshin; Rezayat, Kambiz Akhavan; Mansour-Ghanaei, Fariborz; Maafi, Alireza Amir

doi:10.12659/ajcr.892225

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“…During the previous years, he had been seen by different physicians and had been given various treatments for stomachache and abdominal pain. He had the following paraclinical test results on the day of admission: white blood cell (WBC) = 7000 cells/mm 3 (neutrophil = 48.3%, lymphocyte = 47.2%, monocyte = 2.7%, eosinophil = 1.7%), red blood cell (RBC) = 5 700 000 cells/mm 3 , and hemoglobin (HB) = 15.4 gr/dL. Other biochemical tests were in normal range except for alanine aminotransferase (ALT) which was 54 IU/L (higher than normal range up to 40 IU/L).…”

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“…1,2 Among parasitic infections, Taenia species infection, particularly, saginata is worldwide in distribution, causing taeniasis in humans and has the greatest economic and medical importance. 3 It seems that taeniasis is still present in rural areas of Iran, due to lack of meat inspection systems and sustainable education against this kind of infection. Herein we report a case presented with abdominal pain and frequent excretion of intestinal worm which was finally diagnosed with the parasite Taenia saginata.…”

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Case Record of a Teaching Hospital in Karaj; A 35-Year Old Man With Taenia saginata Infection Treated With Niclosamide

Heidari¹,

Kalantar²,

Fallah³

et al. 2016

Int J Enteric Pathog

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Taenia saginata can cause severe health and economic problems particularly in areas where it is endemic. The disease caused by this cestode is related to poor sanitary conditions, inadequate hygiene, open defecation, inadequately cooked beef, and poverty. A 35-year old man found yellowish white tapeworm proglottids moving in his feces and consulted with the Department of Emergency, Shahid Rajaei hospital, Karaj, Iran. He complained of lower abdominal discomfort, anal itching, and something moving in the stomach. He was given wrong prescription. The patient had the history of eating undercooked beef. Herein we report a case of T. saginata infection based on an adult tapeworm recovery from the infection. The specific identification of the worm was based on standard procedures. Three months after expelling the tapeworm, the man felt better and returned to his normal life.

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confidence: 99%

Case Record of a Teaching Hospital in Karaj; A 35-Year Old Man With Taenia saginata Infection Treated With Niclosamide

Heidari¹,

Kalantar²,

Fallah³

et al. 2016

Int J Enteric Pathog

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Detection of Taenia saginata infection mimicking Crohn's disease using video capsule endoscopy

Nussinson

Yair-Sabag

Shibli

2018

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Human intestinal sarcocystosis in Iran: there but not seen

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Human sarcocystosis is a rare infection caused by the genus Sarcocystis who human serve as definitive (intestinal form of infection) host or intermediate (extraintestinal form) host for some various Sarcocystis species. The detection of Sarcocystis oocysts/sporocysts in the feces usually incidentally and is achieved by microscopic examination of the fresh or preserved specimens. To rule out any parasitological etiology among 23,875 (aged 2 months to 95 years) apparently immunocompetent Iranian individuals (from October of 2010 to June of 2016) with abdominal discomforts referred to several teaching hospitals and local clinical laboratories in Fars Province, Iran, their fecal samples were examined using light microscopy. Most pathogenic parasite-positive and doubtful samples were sent to the Intestinal Protozoology Laboratories of Fasa and Shiraz Universities of Medical Sciences to further examination to detect probable co-infection with other underdiagnose parasitoses. In addition to the common protozoal and helminthic infections, during the course of examining stool specimens using direct smear mixed with saline or iodine mounts and by formalin-ethyl acetate techniques, four cases of intestinal Sarcocystis infection as only or concurrently infected with other parasites were found. The present paper presents cases of human intestinal Sarcocystis infection in Iran. Since Sarcocystis are small in size and usually rare in stool, they often go unnoticed. It should be noted that stool smears must be examined with great care to avoid misinterpretation of Sarcocystis infections in microscopic examinations. To the best of our knowledge, co-infection of intestinal sarcocystosis and other principal parasitoses in stool investigations has not been reported earlier.

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Taenia: An Uninvited Guest

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Case Record of a Teaching Hospital in Karaj; A 35-Year Old Man With Taenia saginata Infection Treated With Niclosamide

Case Record of a Teaching Hospital in Karaj; A 35-Year Old Man With Taenia saginata Infection Treated With Niclosamide

Detection of Taenia saginata infection mimicking Crohn's disease using video capsule endoscopy

Human intestinal sarcocystosis in Iran: there but not seen

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