Hymenolepis diminuta Infection in a Child from a Rural Area: A Rare Case Report

In humans, infection with Hymenolepis diminuta is usually uncommon but has been reported from various areas of the world. Parasitization rates ranging between 0.001% and 5.5% have been reported according to different surveys. We report a rare case of H. diminuta infection in a 10-year-old female fro...

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Autores principales: Tiwari, Shreekant, Karuna, Tadepalli, Rautaraya, Bibhudutta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24696564
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.129096
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description In humans, infection with Hymenolepis diminuta is usually uncommon but has been reported from various areas of the world. Parasitization rates ranging between 0.001% and 5.5% have been reported according to different surveys. We report a rare case of H. diminuta infection in a 10-year-old female from the rural area of Kendrapada district of Odisha. The patient came to our pediatrics outpatient department with the chief complain of intermittent abdominal pain, anal pruritus and nocturnal restlessness. She responded well to praziquantel therapy.
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spelling pubmed-39696472014-04-02 Hymenolepis diminuta Infection in a Child from a Rural Area: A Rare Case Report Tiwari, Shreekant Karuna, Tadepalli Rautaraya, Bibhudutta J Lab Physicians Case Report In humans, infection with Hymenolepis diminuta is usually uncommon but has been reported from various areas of the world. Parasitization rates ranging between 0.001% and 5.5% have been reported according to different surveys. We report a rare case of H. diminuta infection in a 10-year-old female from the rural area of Kendrapada district of Odisha. The patient came to our pediatrics outpatient department with the chief complain of intermittent abdominal pain, anal pruritus and nocturnal restlessness. She responded well to praziquantel therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3969647/ /pubmed/24696564 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.129096 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969647/
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