Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report

We report a human case of Hymenolepis diminuta infection in Guilan Province, northern part of Iran in 2017. The patient was a 15-month-old boy with gastrointestinal symptoms. In stool examination, eggs of H. diminuta was found based on morphological characteristic. The infant was successfully treate...

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Autores principales: SHARIFDINI, Meysam, HAJIALILO, Elham, GHANBARZADEH, Laleh, SARAEI, Mehrzad
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Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32292738
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author SHARIFDINI, Meysam
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GHANBARZADEH, Laleh
SARAEI, Mehrzad
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description We report a human case of Hymenolepis diminuta infection in Guilan Province, northern part of Iran in 2017. The patient was a 15-month-old boy with gastrointestinal symptoms. In stool examination, eggs of H. diminuta was found based on morphological characteristic. The infant was successfully treated with a single oral dose of praziquantel, and then completely recovered. For the first time, we report human infection with this species in north of Iran.
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spelling pubmed-71459152020-04-14 Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report SHARIFDINI, Meysam HAJIALILO, Elham GHANBARZADEH, Laleh SARAEI, Mehrzad Iran J Public Health Case Report We report a human case of Hymenolepis diminuta infection in Guilan Province, northern part of Iran in 2017. The patient was a 15-month-old boy with gastrointestinal symptoms. In stool examination, eggs of H. diminuta was found based on morphological characteristic. The infant was successfully treated with a single oral dose of praziquantel, and then completely recovered. For the first time, we report human infection with this species in north of Iran. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2019-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7145915/ /pubmed/32292738 Text en Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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SHARIFDINI, Meysam
HAJIALILO, Elham
GHANBARZADEH, Laleh
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Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report
title Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report
title_full Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report
title_fullStr Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report
title_short Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report
title_sort infection with hymenolepis diminuta (rodolphi, 1819) in a child from north of iran: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32292738
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