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, Pages 629-632 PDF (206.47 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2015.97559 | ||
| 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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