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SUBMITTER: Kim HU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5365257 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Korean journal of parasitology 20170228 1
A case of <i>Taenia asiatica</i> infection detected by small bowel series and colonoscopy is described. The patient was a 42-year-old Korean man accompanied by discharge of movable proglottids via anus. He used to eat raw pig liver but seldom ate beef. Small bowel series radiologic examinations showed flat tape-like filling defects on the ileum. By colonoscopy, a moving flat tapeworm was observed from the terminal ileum to the ascending colon. The tapeworm was identified as <i>T. asiatica</i> by ...[more]