Solitary Neurocysticercosis Case Caused by Asian Genotype of Taenia Solium Confirmed by Mitochondrial DNA Analysis

Overview

Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2004 Aug 7

PMID 15297559

Citations 6

Authors

Hiroshi Yamasaki

Shigeo Matsunaga

Koji Yamamura

Chia-Cheng Chang

Shunji Kawamura

Yasuhito Sako

Minoru Nakao

Kazuhiro Nakaya

Akira Ito

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Abstract

A Japanese woman presenting with neurologic symptoms was presumptively diagnosed with neurocysticercosis based on imaging findings. Hooklets in the scolex of the resected lesion were not confirmed through histopathological observation. However, the illness was confirmed by mitochondrial DNA analysis to be a solitary neurocysticercosis case caused by the Asian genotype of Taenia solium.

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