Second case of human infection with <i>Mesocestoides lineatus</i> in Korea

Original Article


Korean J Parasitol. 1992 Jun;30(2):147-150. English. Published online Mar 20, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.1992.30.2.147
Copyright © 1992 by The Korean Society for Parasitology


Second case of human infection with Mesocestoides lineatus in Korea
K S Eom,S H Kim,^* and H J Rim^**
Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 360-763, Korea.


Abstract
The second case of human infection with Mesocestoides lineatus in Korea was reported. The patient, a farm worker, complained of abdominal pain and massive discharge of sesame-like proglottids in his stool for several months. Worms, recovered by chemotherapy with niclosamide, consisted of 32 strobilae. This may be the heaviest worm burden in human infection ever reported. The infected man habitually ate the raw viscera of chickens.

Figures


	Figs. 1-5 Fig. 1. Multiple Mesocestoides lineatus infection, 32 worms were recovered. Fig. 2. A whole strobila with free gravid proglottids. Fig. 3. A gravid proglottid with a paruterine organ (Semichon's acetocarmine stained, ×25). Fig. 4. Mature proglottids (Semichon's acetocarmine stained, ×30). Fig. 5. Egg containing hexacanth embryo(×100).

Tables


	Table 1 Comparison of reported measurement data on Mesocestoides lineatus of human cases by different authors

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