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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Case Report
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
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author Floß, Niklas
Dolff, Sebastian
Junker, Andreas
Blau, Tobias
Rauschenbach, Laurel
Sure, Ulrich
Witzke, Oliver
Tappe, Dennis
Schönfeld, Andreas
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Dolff, Sebastian
Junker, Andreas
Blau, Tobias
Rauschenbach, Laurel
Sure, Ulrich
Witzke, Oliver
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description 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. crassiceps, were detected. Identification on the species level was possible by specific PCR and sequencing. After complete surgical removal, the patient was treated with albendazole and dexamethasone for two weeks. No residual symptoms were reported up to date.
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spelling pubmed-98798062023-01-28 Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male Floß, Niklas Dolff, Sebastian Junker, Andreas Blau, Tobias Rauschenbach, Laurel Sure, Ulrich Witzke, Oliver Tappe, Dennis Schönfeld, Andreas Infection Case Report 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. crassiceps, were detected. Identification on the species level was possible by specific PCR and sequencing. After complete surgical removal, the patient was treated with albendazole and dexamethasone for two weeks. No residual symptoms were reported up to date. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-09-09 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9879806/ /pubmed/36083404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-022-01912-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Sure, Ulrich
Witzke, Oliver
Tappe, Dennis
Schönfeld, Andreas
Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male
title Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male
title_full Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male
title_fullStr Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male
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title_short Cerebral Taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male
title_sort cerebral taenia crassiceps larvae infection in a 71-year-old immunocompetent male
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url 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
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