Heavy Hymenolepis nana Infection Possibly Through Organic Foods: Report of a Case

We encountered a patient with heavy Hymenolepis nana infection. The patient was a 44-year-old Korean man who had suffered from chronic hepatitis (type B) for 15 years. A large number of H. nana adult worms were found during colonoscopy that was performed as a part of routine health screening. The pa...

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Autores principales: Kim, Bong Jin, Song, Kyung Seob, Kong, Hyun-Hee, Cha, Hee-Jae, Ock, Meesun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3949000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24623888
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2014.52.1.85
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description We encountered a patient with heavy Hymenolepis nana infection. The patient was a 44-year-old Korean man who had suffered from chronic hepatitis (type B) for 15 years. A large number of H. nana adult worms were found during colonoscopy that was performed as a part of routine health screening. The parasites were scattered throughout the colon, as well as in the terminal ileum, although the patient was immunocompetent. Based on this study, colonoscopy may be helpful for diagnosis of asymptomatic H. nana infections.
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spelling pubmed-39490002014-03-12 Heavy Hymenolepis nana Infection Possibly Through Organic Foods: Report of a Case Kim, Bong Jin Song, Kyung Seob Kong, Hyun-Hee Cha, Hee-Jae Ock, Meesun Korean J Parasitol We encountered a patient with heavy Hymenolepis nana infection. The patient was a 44-year-old Korean man who had suffered from chronic hepatitis (type B) for 15 years. A large number of H. nana adult worms were found during colonoscopy that was performed as a part of routine health screening. The parasites were scattered throughout the colon, as well as in the terminal ileum, although the patient was immunocompetent. Based on this study, colonoscopy may be helpful for diagnosis of asymptomatic H. nana infections. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2014-02 2014-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3949000/ /pubmed/24623888 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2014.52.1.85 Text en © 2014, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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