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Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male

We report a rare case of a cerebral infection with Taenia crassiceps tapeworm larvae in an immunocompetent 71-year-old German male. Initially, an intracerebral malignoma was suspected after the patient experienced stroke-like symptoms. After surgery, helminth larvae, later identified as T. crassicep...

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Autores principales: Floß, Niklas, Dolff, Sebastian, Junker, Andreas, Blau, Tobias, Rauschenbach, Laurel, Sure, Ulrich, Witzke, Oliver, Tappe, Dennis, Schönfeld, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9879806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36083404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-022-01912-w