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[A case of fascioliasis].
Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi
November 2023
Department of Hepato-biliary-pancreatic Medicine, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital.
A 38-year-old rice farmer visited a hospital for abdominal pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed a liver tumor and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a hypovascular tumor, both in segment 4. Thus, he was diagnosed with liver abscess.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRepeated praziquantel treatment and Opisthorchis viverrini infection: a population-based cross-sectional study in northeast Thailand.
Infect Dis Poverty
March 2019
Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
Background: Opisthorchis viverrini infection is highly prevalent in northeast Thailand. This liver fluke is classified as a carcinogen due to its causal links with cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) development. Although treatment with praziquantel (PZQ) effectively cures O.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComparison of two coproparasitological techniques for the detection of Platynosomum sp. infection in cats.
Vet Parasitol
August 2014
Laboratório de Parasitologia Veterinária, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA 40110-100, Brazil. Electronic address:
Platynosomum sp. is the etiologic agent of platynosomiasis, a hepatic disease that affects domestic cats. The parasite develops in the bile ducts and gallbladder, causing severe hepato-biliary disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHelminth and intestinal protozoa infections, multiparasitism and risk factors in Champasack province, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
April 2011
National Institute of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Background: Detailed investigations of multiparasitism are scarce in the Mekong River basin. We assessed helminth (trematode, nematode, and cestode), and intestinal protozoa infections, and multiparasitism in random population samples from three different eco-epidemiological settings in Champasack province, southern Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), and determined underlying risk factors.
Methodology: Two stool samples were collected from 669 individuals aged ≥ 6 months over consecutive days and examined for helminth infections using the Kato-Katz method.
[The clinical case of the month. Cutaneous fascioliasis].
Rev Med Liege
October 2004
Service de Dermatologie, Hopital Essalud, Cusco, Pérou.
Fascioliasis is an hepato-biliary distomatosis which may exceptionally manifest itself in the skin. We report a case presenting as nodules localized on the trunk. Lesions cleared under praziquantel treatment.
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