Trichuris trichiura Incidentally Detected by Colonoscopy and Identified by a Genetic Analysis

Although trichuriasis, a zoonotic disease, has recently become rare in Japan due to improved environmental hygiene, we herein report a 79-year-old man in whom a worm was incidentally found in the ascending colon during colonoscopy for positive fecal occult blood and was endoscopically removed. A gen...

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Autores principales: Ishizaki, Yuto, Kawashima, Kazumasa, Gunji, Naohiko, Onizawa, Michio, Hikichi, Takuto, Hasegawa, Mitsuko, Ohira, Hiromasa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8987263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34471029
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8012-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8987263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34471029
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8012-21

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