| short report: a new case report of human mesocestoides infection in the united states. | the twenty-seventh documented case of human mesocestoides infection, which corresponds to the seventh documented case in the united states, is reported. the case had its origin in alexandria, louisiana in the summer of 1998. the patient was a 19-month-old boy. the strobila consisted of 35 proglottids that included mature as well as gravid segments containing a ventral genital pore and a parauterine organ. after a detailed microscopic examination, the tapeworm was identified as belonging to the g ... | 2003 | 12812347 |
| the guest playing host: colonization of the introduced mediterranean gecko, hemidactylus turcicus, by helminth parasites in southeastern louisiana. | parasite surveys of exotic hosts offer the opportunity to examine parasite colonization on different scales (i.e., host individual, host population, host species, and new geographic locality). ten helminths (macracanthorhynchus ingens, mesocestoides lineatus, oochoristica javaensis, haematoloechus varioplexus, mesocoelium monas, telorchis corti, cosmocercoides variabilis, oswaldocruzia leidyi, skrjabinoptera sp., and a larval acuariid nematode) were recovered from the exotic mediterranean gecko ... | 2001 | 11780810 |