Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report

We describe a case of cerebral schistosomiasis, caused by Asian (oriental) Schistosoma japonicum trematode blood flukes, in a young Chinese patient and its management. We also provide a brief update for physicians on the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of schistosomiasis, with particular...

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Autores principales: Li, Yuesheng, Ross, Allen G, Hou, Xunya, Lou, Zhaoyang, McManus, Donald P
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21294922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-10-5
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author Li, Yuesheng
Ross, Allen G
Hou, Xunya
Lou, Zhaoyang
McManus, Donald P
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Ross, Allen G
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description We describe a case of cerebral schistosomiasis, caused by Asian (oriental) Schistosoma japonicum trematode blood flukes, in a young Chinese patient and its management. We also provide a brief update for physicians on the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of schistosomiasis, with particular emphasis on neuroschistosomiasis, the most severe clinical outcome associated with this parasitic infection.
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spelling pubmed-30429022011-02-23 Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report Li, Yuesheng Ross, Allen G Hou, Xunya Lou, Zhaoyang McManus, Donald P Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob Case Report We describe a case of cerebral schistosomiasis, caused by Asian (oriental) Schistosoma japonicum trematode blood flukes, in a young Chinese patient and its management. We also provide a brief update for physicians on the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of schistosomiasis, with particular emphasis on neuroschistosomiasis, the most severe clinical outcome associated with this parasitic infection. BioMed Central 2011-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3042902/ /pubmed/21294922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-10-5 Text en Copyright ©2011 Li et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Li, Yuesheng
Ross, Allen G
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Lou, Zhaoyang
McManus, Donald P
Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
title Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
title_full Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
title_fullStr Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
title_full_unstemmed Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
title_short Oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
title_sort oriental schistosomiasis with neurological complications: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21294922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-10-5
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