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Lethal invasive cestodiasis in immunosuppressed patients 74th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Parasitologists Olson, P. D., Yoder, K., Fajardo, L. F., Marty, A. M., van de Pas, S., Olivier, C., Relman, D. A. UNIV CHICAGO PRESS. 2003: 1962–66

Abstract

Using both traditional methods and broad-range 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) polymerase chain reaction, we examined 2 cases of lethal cestodiasis, in which the disease agent had been poorly identified or misidentified. In one case, involving a patient with AIDS, we identified the human dwarf tapeworm, Hymenolepis nana, as a cause of aberrant metastatic larval disease. In the second case with similar pathologic abnormalities, involving a patient with Hodgkin disease, we identified a larval cestode with a previously uncharacterized 18S rDNA sequence. A prior report of this case nearly 30 years ago, based on tissue examination, had suggested that the parasite was a sparganum.

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