SHARIFDINI, Meysam and Hajialilo, Elham and ghanbarzadeh, laleh and Saraei, Mehrzad (2019) Infection with Hymenolepis diminuta (Rodolphi, 1819) in a Child from North of Iran: Case Report. Iranian Journal of Public Health.
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Abstract
We report a human case of Hymenolepis diminuta infection in Guilan Province, northern part of Iran in 2017. The patient was a 15-month-old boy with gastrointestinal symptoms. In stool examination, eggs of H. diminuta was found based on morphological characteristic. The infant was successfully treated with a single oral dose of pra-ziquantel, and then completely recovered. For the first time, we report human infection with this species in north of Iran.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RQ Parasitology |
| Divisions: | University Portal > research center > camr |
| Depositing User: | pr Camr research |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2019 07:36 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2019 07:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.qums.ac.ir/id/eprint/8956 |
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