Presumptive Dipylidium caninum Infection in a Toddler

We report a female toddler who presented repetitively with a chief complaint of motile white worms seen in her diapers. Symptoms of perianal itching and visualization of visible motile worms persisted for 6 months despite being treated with multiple courses of albendazole causing a lot of frustratio...

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Autores principales: Chong, Hannah F, Al Hammoud, Roukaya, Chang, Michael L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7081025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4716124
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description We report a female toddler who presented repetitively with a chief complaint of motile white worms seen in her diapers. Symptoms of perianal itching and visualization of visible motile worms persisted for 6 months despite being treated with multiple courses of albendazole causing a lot of frustration and distress to the caregivers. The characteristics of the worms by inspection along with the presence of 3 pet dogs are consistent with Dipylidium caninum.
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spelling pubmed-70810252020-03-23 Presumptive Dipylidium caninum Infection in a Toddler Chong, Hannah F Al Hammoud, Roukaya Chang, Michael L Case Rep Pediatr Case Report We report a female toddler who presented repetitively with a chief complaint of motile white worms seen in her diapers. Symptoms of perianal itching and visualization of visible motile worms persisted for 6 months despite being treated with multiple courses of albendazole causing a lot of frustration and distress to the caregivers. The characteristics of the worms by inspection along with the presence of 3 pet dogs are consistent with Dipylidium caninum. Hindawi 2020-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7081025/ /pubmed/32206366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4716124 Text en Copyright © 2020 Hannah F Chong et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Presumptive Dipylidium caninum Infection in a Toddler
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