Publications
| [holiday dreams with a downside: uncommon tapeworm infection in an infant]. | eight weeks after his return from mauritius, a 2.5-year-old boy started to show signs of gastrointestinal illness including diarrhoea with frequent ill-smelling stools as well as restlessness, insomnia and apathy. proglottids excreted with the faeces were diagnosed as raillietina madagascariensis (davain, 1870), the tropical rat tapeworm. treatment with praziquantel (10 mg/kg bw) proved to be efficient. | 2005 | 16416387 |