Korean J Parasitol.
2013 Oct;51(5):599-602.
Human Neurocysticercosis Case and an Endemic Focus of Taenia solium in Lao PDR
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- 1Department of Parasitology and Medical Research Institute, Chungbuk National University School of Medicine, Cheongju 361-763, Korea. kseom@chungbuk.ac.kr
- 2Department of Environmental Medical Biology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 120-752, Korea.
- 3Department of Parasitology and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju 660-751, Korea.
- 4Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799 Korea.
- 5Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Eulji University College of Medicine, Daejeon 301-746, Korea.
- 6Department of Parasitology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul 130-705, Korea.
- 7Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Healthcare, Lao PDR.
Abstract
- A male patient with neurocysticercosis was identified in Montai Village, Xay District, Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR in February 2004. He had a history of diagnosis for neurocysticercosis by a CT scan in Thailand after an onset of epileptic seizure in 1993. A pig in the same district was found to contain Taenia solium metacestodes (=cysticerci); the slaughtered pig body contained more than 2,000 cysticerci. In addition to morphological identification, molecular identification was also performed on the cysticerci by DNA sequencing analysis of the mitochondrial cox1 gene; they were confirmed as T. solium metacestodes. The patient is regarded as an indigenous case of neurocysticercosis infected in an endemic focus of T. solium taeniasis/cysticercosis in Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR.
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Animals
Cysticercus
Electron Transport Complex IV/genetics
Humans
Laos/epidemiology
Male
Mitochondria/genetics
Neurocysticercosis/*epidemiology/parasitology/radiography
Risk Factors
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Swine
Swine Diseases/*epidemiology/parasitology/radiography
Taenia solium/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification
Electron Transport Complex IV
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