TY - JOUR
T1 - Human neurocysticercosis case and an endemic focus of Taenia solium in Lao PDR
AU - Jeon, Hyeong Kyu
AU - Yong, Tai Soon
AU - Sohn, Woon Mok
AU - Chai, Jong Yil
AU - Min, Duk Young
AU - Rim, Han Jong
AU - Insisiengmay, Bounnaloth
AU - Eom, Keeseon S.
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.3347/kjp.2013.51.5.599
DO - 10.3347/kjp.2013.51.5.599
M3 - Article
C2 - 24327790
AN - SCOPUS:84889595929
VL - 51
SP - 599
EP - 602
JO - Korean Journal of Parasitology
JF - Korean Journal of Parasitology
SN - 0023-4001
IS - 5
ER -
