Diphyllobothriosis is reemerging because of global importation and increased popularity of eating raw fish. We detected Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense plerocercoids in the musculature of wild pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) from Alaska, USA. Therefore, salmon from the American and Asian Pacific coasts and elsewhere pose potential dangers for persons who eat these fish raw.

The cause of diphyllobothriosis in 5 persons in Harbin and Shanghai, China, during 2008-2011, initially attributed to the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum, was confirmed as D. nihonkaiense by using molecular analysis of expelled proglottids. The use of morphologic characteristics alone to identify this organism was inadequate and led to misidentification of the species.

Neurocysticercosis (NCC), caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, is reported to be a common condition in Nepal. So far imaging diagnosis was mainstay of the diagnosis. In this paper, we report three patients presenting with neurological symptoms due to intraventricular NCC. We have diagnosed the causative agent as T. solium on molecular basis. Further research is warranted to assess the ac...

SUMMARY The known range of the zoonotic fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis has expanded since the 1990s, and today this parasite is recorded in higher abundances throughout large parts of Europe. This phenomenon is mostly attributed to the increasing European fox populations and their invasion of urban habitats. However, these factors alone are insufficient to explain the heterogeneous di...

Cysticercosis is a condition in which a human acts as the intermediate host of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. Although cysticercosis is a common disease in some regions of the world and can occur in any body site, oral lesions are rare. In this report, we document the case of oral cysticercosis in a 10-year-old boy who sought treatment for an asymptomatic nodule on the dorsal surface of the t...

Author affiliations: SA Pathology, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (C.V. Moore, G.F. Weldhagen); Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia (R.C.A. Thompson, L. Pallant); University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A. Jabbar); Investigator Clinic, Port Lincoln, South Australia (J. Williams); Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide (K. Rasiah); SA Health Commun...

The present communication deals with the study of seasonal prevalence of parasitic helminths in broiler chickens from Marathwada region of Maharashtra. The study was conducted during, annual cycle June 2012 to May 2013 from different sampling station and different season to estimate the seasonal prevalence of parasitic helminths. For this study annually 279 broiler chickens were randomly select...

An identical 36-nucleotide exon was identified at the 5' termini of different mRNAs from the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis. We provide evidence that this exon constitutes a new spliced leader (SL) that is obviously trans-spliced to echinococcal pre-mRNAs, donated by a non-polyadenylated, trimethylguanosine-capped SL-RNA of 104 nucleotides. Sequence comparisons indicated that cestode and t...