Case report: Rare case of disseminated cysticercosis and taeniasis in a japanese traveler after returning from india

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 58-62

  Kobayashi, Ken Ichiro ^a,b,c,d   Nakamura Uchiyama, Fukumi ^a,b,c,d   Nishiguchi, Takeshi ^a,b,c,d   Isoda, Kenichi ^a,b,c,d   Kokubo, Yasumasa ^a,b,c,d   Ando, Katsuhiko ^a,b,c,d   Katurahara, Masaki ^a,b,c,d   Sako, Yasuhito ^a,b,c,d   Yanagida, Tetsuya ^a,b,c,d   Ito, Akira ^a,b,c,d   Iwabuchi, Sentaro ^a,b,c,d   Ohnishi, Kenji ^a,b,c,d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN BOKUTOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Tomida Skin Clinic   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIATRIZOATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PREDNISOLONE; VALPROIC ACID; HELMINTH DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISSEMINATED CYSTICERCOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EGG; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HAPLOTYPE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; JAPANESE; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SEIZURE; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ETHNOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; JAPAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYSTICERCOSIS; DNA, HELMINTH; FECES; HUMANS; INDIA; JAPAN; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAVEL;

EID: 84880088175     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0355     Document Type: Article

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