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Case Reports
. 2008 Feb;78(2):235-8.

First record of human infection with the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense in North America

Barbara Wicht  1 , Tomás Scholz, Raffaele Peduzzi, Roman Kuchta
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  • PMID: 18256421
Case Reports

First record of human infection with the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense in North America

Barbara Wicht et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Feb.

Abstract

The tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea), originally described from Japan, is reported from a man in North America for the first time. Species identification was based on sequences of ribosomal (partial 18S rRNA) and mitochondrial (partial Cytochrome c Oxidase subunit I) genes of proglottids expelled from a Czech tourist who ate raw Pacific sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) from British Columbia, Canada.

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