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SUBMITTER: Tappe D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3541736 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tappe Dennis D Berger Luise L Haeupler Alexandra A Muntau Birgit B Racz Paul P Harder Yves Y Specht Katja K Prazeres da Costa Clarissa C Poppert Sven S
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20121119 1
We report a case of subcutaneous sparganosis in a 68-year-old female Japanese immigrant in Germany. The patient complained of a painless erythema caudal of the umbilicus with a palpable subcutaneous cherry-sized lump. Polymerase chain reaction on formalin-fixed parasite tissue identified Spirometra erinaceieuropaei as the causative agent; the proliferative form of sparganosis, which is caused by the branching and disseminating Sparganum proliferum, could, thus, be excluded. From the excised spar ...[more]