Galoș Felicia, Anghel Mălina, Ioan Andreea, Ieșanu Mara-Ioana, Boboc Cătălin, Boboc Anca Andreea
Department of Pediatrics, Marie Curie Emergency Children's Hospital, 041451 Bucharest, Romania.
Department of Pediatrics, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
Pathogens. 2022 Mar 7;11(3):322. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11030322.
is primarily a rodent parasite that is ubiquitously distributed worldwide, but with only a few cases described as human infections. We report a case of infection in a 15-month-old child, living in an urban setting, with no previous medical history. The patient presented with two episodes of seizures, and complaints of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea, with no apparent history of rodent contact. Furthermore, the patient's gastrointestinal symptoms were linked to the emission of suspected tapeworm proglottids in the feces. After excluding other possible etiologies, a diagnosis of infection was made, based on the examination of characteristic eggs in a concentrated stool specimen. The infant was successfully treated with praziquantel and fully recovered. After two weeks, the stool sample was free of eggs. The clinical follow-up over the next 3 years was normal. is rarely found in humans, and, when present, the infection is frequently asymptomatic. Abdominal pain, irritability, itching, eosinophilia, and seizures have also been reported. In this paper, we report, for the first time in the literature, an infection with in a Romanian infant who had atypical neurological presentation, with full recovery, without subsequent neurological sequelae.
主要是一种啮齿动物寄生虫，在全球广泛分布，但仅有少数人类感染病例的描述。我们报告一例15个月大居住在城市环境且无前科病史的儿童感染病例。该患者出现两次癫痫发作，并伴有腹痛、呕吐和腹泻症状，无明显接触啮齿动物史。此外，患者的胃肠道症状与粪便中排出疑似绦虫节片有关。在排除其他可能病因后，根据浓缩粪便标本中特征性虫卵检查确诊为感染。该婴儿用吡喹酮成功治疗并完全康复。两周后，粪便样本中未检出虫卵。接下来3年的临床随访正常。很少在人类中发现，一旦存在，感染通常无症状。也有腹痛、易怒、瘙痒、嗜酸性粒细胞增多和癫痫发作的报道。在本文中，我们首次在文献中报道罗马尼亚一名婴儿感染，该婴儿有非典型神经表现，完全康复且无后续神经后遗症。
