DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIUM | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 19, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 2015, Page 629-632 PDF (206.47 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2015.97559 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| OSAMA H. ABD ELLA1; ABDALLAH E. MOHAMMAD2 | ||||
| 1Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Qena South Valley University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Qena South Valley University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Infection with Dicrocoelium dendriticum in humans is seldom to be reported in Egypt. This liver fluke, which commonly infects ruminants, has a complex life cycle with two intermediate hosts; the land snail and the ant. Human infection occurs by accidental ingestion of the second intermediate host. The present reported a patient suffered from recurrent acute chole-cystitis with chronic urinary schistosomiasis whose Kato stool examination showed Dicroceolium dendriticum eggs. He was successfully treated with Mirazid | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Egypt; Dicrocoelium dendriticum; schistosomiasis; treatment | ||||
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