• J Travel Med · May 2010

    Case Reports

    Neurocysticercosis: assessing where the infection was acquired from.

    • Tetsuya Yanagida, Izumi Yuzawa, Durga D Joshi, Yasuhito Sako, Minoru Nakao, Kazuhiro Nakaya, Nobuyuki Kawano, Hidehiro Oka, Kiyotaka Fujii, and Akira Ito.
    • Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical College, Hokkaido, Japan. yanagida@asahikawa-med.ac.jp
    • J Travel Med. 2010 May 1; 17 (3): 206-8.

    AbstractHistopathological specimen of a neurocysticercosis patient, who had been living in several endemic countries, was retrospectively analyzed for assessing the origin of the infection. Mitochondrial DNA analysis strongly suggested that the patient became infected with the parasite in Nepal at least 10 years before the onset of the disease.

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