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. 2016 Jan;54(1):172-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02171-15. Epub 2015 Oct 21.

Molecular Identification of Zoonotic Tissue-Invasive Tapeworm Larvae Other than Taenia solium in Suspected Human Cysticercosis Cases

Dennis Tappe  1 , Jörg Berkholz  2 , Uwe Mahlke  2 , Hartmut Lobeck  2 , Thomas Nagel  3 , Alexandra Haeupler  1 , Birgit Muntau  1 , Paul Racz  1 , Sven Poppert  4
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Molecular Identification of Zoonotic Tissue-Invasive Tapeworm Larvae Other than Taenia solium in Suspected Human Cysticercosis Cases

Dennis Tappe et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 Jan.

Abstract

Rarely, zoonotic Taenia species other than Taenia solium cause human cysticercosis. The larval stages are morphologically often indistinguishable. We therefore investigated 12 samples of suspected human cysticercosis cases at the molecular level and surprisingly identified one Taenia crassiceps and one Taenia serialis (coenurosis) infection, which were caused by tapeworm larvae normally infecting rodents and sheep via eggs released from foxes and dogs.

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