Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany

Human cysticercosis caused by Taenia crassiceps tapeworm larvae involves the muscles and subcutis mostly in immunocompromised patients and the eye in immunocompetent persons. We report a successfully treated cerebellar infection in an immunocompetent woman. We developed serologic tests, and the para...

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Autores principales: Ntoukas, Vasileios, Tappe, Dennis, Pfütze, Daniel, Simon, Michaela, Holzmann, Thomas
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24274258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1912.130284
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author Ntoukas, Vasileios
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description Human cysticercosis caused by Taenia crassiceps tapeworm larvae involves the muscles and subcutis mostly in immunocompromised patients and the eye in immunocompetent persons. We report a successfully treated cerebellar infection in an immunocompetent woman. We developed serologic tests, and the parasite was identified by histologic examination and 12s rDNA PCR and sequencing.
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spelling pubmed-38408662013-12-04 Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany Ntoukas, Vasileios Tappe, Dennis Pfütze, Daniel Simon, Michaela Holzmann, Thomas Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Human cysticercosis caused by Taenia crassiceps tapeworm larvae involves the muscles and subcutis mostly in immunocompromised patients and the eye in immunocompetent persons. We report a successfully treated cerebellar infection in an immunocompetent woman. We developed serologic tests, and the parasite was identified by histologic examination and 12s rDNA PCR and sequencing. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3840866/ /pubmed/24274258 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1912.130284 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Ntoukas, Vasileios
Tappe, Dennis
Pfütze, Daniel
Simon, Michaela
Holzmann, Thomas
Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany
title Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany
title_full Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany
title_fullStr Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany
title_full_unstemmed Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany
title_short Cerebellar Cysticercosis Caused by Larval Taenia crassiceps Tapeworm in Immunocompetent Woman, Germany
title_sort cerebellar cysticercosis caused by larval taenia crassiceps tapeworm in immunocompetent woman, germany
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24274258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1912.130284
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