| cerebral sparganosis mansoni. report of two cases. | among diseases due to cerebral parasitism, that caused by sparganum mansoni, the larva of spirometra mansoni, is very rare. we have encountered two such cases. a computed tomography scan in both revealed a nodular high density contrast enhanced area against an extensive low density background area. neither calcification nor cyst formation was recognized. these computed tomography scan findings were thought to be characteristic for cerebral sparganosis mansoni and were difficult to differentiate ... | 1990 | 2405529 |
| [cerebral sparganosis mansoni--report of two cases]. | cerebral sparganosis mansoni is a very rare disease caused by a larva of diphyllobothrium and so far, only two cases have been reported. another two cases are presented in this paper. case 1: a 64-year-old man was admitted presenting with hypovolition. he has eaten thunder fishes several years before. ct scan revealed an extensive low density area with an enhanced nodular mass around the right basal ganglia. an operation was carried out on the preoperative diagnosis of brain tumor and a granulom ... | 1989 | 2660881 |
| [a case of sparganosis mansoni cerebri as an epileptogenic lesion]. | the authors report a case of sparganosis mansoni cerebri. this 33-year-old man had experienced adversive seizures. plain ct demonstrated a high density area with surrounding low density area, and homogeneously enhanced with contrast medium in the frontoparietal region. 99tco4 brain scintigram showed an abnormal hot area. on operating as a cerebral tumor, we had removed a living sparganum mansoni from the cerebral granuloma. this is the third report in the world to our knowledge of literature, in ... | 1988 | 3399016 |
| [case of sparganum mansoni infection in man and distribution of diphyllobothrium erinacei in cats and dogs in miyagi prefecture]. | | 1970 | 5461923 |
| [case of sparganum mansoni presenting a specific x-ray image]. | | 1966 | 6007163 |
| [intestinal helminths in bangkok stray dogs and their role in public health (author's tranls)]. | feces examination of 107 stray dogs in bangkok, thailand, on intestinal helminths showed the following rates: hookworms 100%, trichuris vulpis 54.2%, toxocara canis 6.5%, gnathostoma spinigerum 2.8%, spirocerca lupi 17.8%, diphyllobothrium mansoni 1.9%, and opisthorchis viverrini 1.9%. out of these species hockworms (especially a. braziliense), t. canis, g. spinigerum, and d. mansoni are important sources of human cutaneous or visceral larva migrans, the latter two being special parasites of the ... | 1980 | 7435002 |
| immunodiagnosis of human sparganosis mansoni by micro-chemiluminescence enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. | we compared a microcolorimetric enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (colorimetric elisa) and a microchemiluminescence enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (chemiluminescence elisa) for the detection of specific immunoglobulin g (igg) in the serum of 9 patients with sparganosis mansoni and 9 healthy controls. the chemiluminescence elisa was able to measure serum levels of specific igg over a far wider range than the colorimetric assay, and its detection limit was at least 10-fold lower. an additional ... | 1994 | 7886764 |
| cerebral sparganosis mansoni--case report. | an 80-year-old male with paresis of the right upper extremity underwent surgery for a suspected metastatic brain tumor. a live sparganum mansoni worm was removed from the parietal lobe through a left parietal craniotomy. retrospective evaluation of magnetic resonance (mr) images revealed ipsilateral ventricular dilatation, despite the presence of a mass lesion resembling a metastatic brain tumor. this interesting mr imaging finding is an important point for differentiating between a brain tumor ... | 1995 | 8584091 |
| sparganosis of brain and spinal cord: unusual tapeworm infestation (report of two cases). | among the diseases due to cerebral parasitism, those caused by sparganum mansoni, the larval form of spirometra mansoni, are very rare. we report two cases, one involving the frontoparietal area in a 38-year-old male and presenting as a mass lesion and another in a 10-year-old girl, presenting with paraparesis due to mid-thoracic compressive mass lesion. pathological examination of the resected lesion revealed the characteristic plerocercoid larva, spargana, enclosed in acute inflammatory exudat ... | 1998 | 9746305 |
| [intestinal perforation due to infection of sparganum mansoni] | in may 1974, authors encountered a 37 year old korean male who was suffering from very serious condition of acute abdomen. on exploratory laparotomy, a ruptured granulomatous mass in the proximal portion of the ileum showing extensive inflammatory and gangrenous changes was found and about 4 ft. long of the bowel was resected. from the honey-combed fibrous capsules in the mass, four plerocercoid larvae, spargana, measuring about 3 to 7 cm in lengths were extirpated. the patient had a past histor ... | 1976 | 12913452 |
| some aspects of human sparganosis in korea. | human sparganosis in korea was discussed on the bases of five human cases experienced by the present authors and 58 case records already reported by many previous authors, in aspects of epidemiology and clinical features. sparganosis is not infrequent tissue helminthiasis now in korea and the incidence has been evidently increased during past 10 years. it might be interpreted that improved medical delivery system and health care exposed the hidden but prevalent disease. the distribution of sparg ... | 1975 | 12913468 |
| on the sparganum mansoni infection in some korean terrestrial snakes. | distribution of sparganum mansoni in 7 species of terrestrial snakes in wonju city was surveyed. all kinds of snakes were found to be served as intermediate hosts of this larval worm except elaphe schrenkii which has already been recorded as important host. authors believe that zamenis spinalis was firstly recorded as intermediate host of sparganum mansoni in korea. some aspects of infection status, host-parasite relations and sources of human infection were briefly discussed. | 1973 | 12913489 |
| [studies on phosphatase activity in some parasitic helminths] | in order to obtain some informations on the nature and relative activity of the phosphatases present in various helminths, biochemical studies have been made in thirteen kinds of worm parasites including the adults and larvae (fasciola hepatica, eurytrema pancreaticum, paramphistomum sp., taenia solium, taenia pisiformis, dipylidium caninum, diphyllobothrium mansoni, cysticercus cellulosae, cysticercus fasciolaris and sparganum). a comparison based on the analysis of ph-activity curves was made ... | 1967 | 12913552 |
| studies on transaminase reactions in some parasitic helminths. | by an application of sigma-frankel methods, two transaminase systems, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase and glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, were found to operate at a mesurable rate in 2 species of nematodes(ascaris lumbricoides and ascaridia galli), 5 species of trematodes (clonorchis sinensis, fasciola hepatica, eurytrema pancreaticum, paramphistomum cervi and paragonimus westermani) and 5 kinds of cestodes (diphyllobothrium mansoni, dipylidium caninum, taenia pisiformis, cysticercus cellulosae ... | 1966 | 12913567 |
| [metabolism of c(14)-glucose by moniezia expansa and diphyllobothrium mansoni] | the adult worms of cestodes, moniezia expansa and diphyllobothrium mansoni employed in this experiment. the worms were divided into three portions, i.e. immature, mature and gravid proglottids, and each proglottids were incubated in a certain incubation period, and the glucose uptake rate, total co2 production rate, tissue concentration and their radioactivities were employed as previous reports(rim et al., 1965). 1. the glucose uptake rate by m. expansa was a mean value of 6.46 +/- 1.23 micro m ... | 1965 | 12913582 |
| [metabolism of c(14)-acetate by cestodes] | the adult worm and plerocercoid larva(sparganum) of diphyllobothrium mansoni and moniezia expansa employed in this experiment. the adult worms were divided into three portions, i.e. immature, mature and gravid proglottids, and each proglottids were incubated in 50 cc or 250 cc volume of special incubation flasks with incubation medium consisting of 10 cc of 25 cc of krebs-ringer phosphate buffer (ph 7.4). the incubation medium was added c(14)-acetate and non-radioactive carrier na-acetate so as ... | 1965 | 12913584 |
| [immunological studies on tapeworm. ii). hemagglutination test with tannic acid and sparganum mansoni antigen treated red cells]. | | 1961 | 13919207 |
| [an anal infection of sparganum mansoni]. | | 2003 | 14628337 |
| sparganum mansoni parasitic infection in the lung showing a nodule. | reported herein is a 57-year-old man infected by sparganum mansoni, a kind of tapeworm, showing a solitary nodule of the middle lobe of the right lung. because a transbronchial biopsy could not diagnose the nodule, a right middle lobectomy was performed on suspicion of malignant tumor. the lesion was diagnosed as sparganosis by histological and immuno-serological examinations. histological examination revealed granulomatous inflammation with neutrophil and eosinophil infiltration around the worm ... | 2006 | 17040290 |
| [infection of sparganum mansoni through wounded skin]. | | 2006 | 17094608 |
| cerebral sparganosis: a diagnostic challenge. | cerebral sparganosis is a rare cestode larval parasitic infestation of the nervous system. we report a 28-year-old female from south india with a temporo-occipital mass lesion, which mimicked a tuberculoma on imaging. she received antituberculous therapy for 7 months. surgical excision of the mass revealed a parasitic abscess containing larval form of sparganum mansoni. cerebral sparganosis can closely mimic tuberculoma or neoplastic lesions. hence, in areas endemic for tuberculosis, such as ind ... | 2008 | 18661311 |
| [a case report of sparganosis mansoni in the cheek]. | sparganosis mansoni is a kind of parasitic infective disease, rarely seen in clinic. a case of sparganosis mansoni is reported in this article. the patient was a 25-year-old male, who came to xiangya hospital on september 26, 2007 because of a mass in the left cheek. a white tape-like body was found during the operation and recognized to be a live parasite. enzyme linked immunosorbent assay of the serum revealed positivity against spirometra mansoni. the final identification proved that the whit ... | 2008 | 19007088 |
| helminthic infections mimicking malignancy: a review of published case reports. | infectious diseases, including infections with helminths, can initially present similarly to malignancies. the goal of the article is to review reports of helminthic infections that are initially diagnosed as malignancy. | 2010 | 20818089 |
| [clinical analysis of 6 cases with cerebral sparganosis mansoni]. | a retrospective study was carried out to analyze 6 cases of cerebral sparganosis mansoni in huashan hospital from august 2005 to august 2009. the epidemiological features, clinical characteristics, therapeutic approaches and outcome of this disease were investigated. among the patients, 4 cases had a history of eating raw frogs or snakes. 5 showed eosinophilia in peripheral blood, all with positive anti-sparganum mansoni antibody in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. cerebral mri showed placeholder ... | 2010 | 21351559 |
| [collective group sparganum and validity of spirometra erinacei]. | parasites and their hosts are animals, their scientific names are subject to the international code of zoological nomenclature. the core principles of the code are the principle of name-bearing types, the principle of priority and the principle of homonymy. the code provides guidance for zoologists to use correctly the available names. an assemblages of identifiable species of uncertain generic position are treated as a genus-group level for taxonomic convenience known as "collective groups" whi ... | 2010 | 21500533 |
| [histopathological dynamic observation on mice infected by experimental sparganum mansoni]. | to observe dynamically the histopathological changes of mice infected with sparganum mansoni. | 2011 | 22263509 |
| [a case of sparganum mansoni infection induced by eating live frogs]. | a case of sparganum mansoni infection induced by having live frogs in other city was reported in nantong city, jiangsu province. the patient was treated with praziquantel and the effect was satisfactory. | 2012 | 23593830 |
| [analysis on parasitic infection of clinical samples from hospitals in shanghai during 2011-2013]. | to analyze the results of parasitic pathogen detection on clinical samples from shanghai hospitals during 2011-2013. | 2014 | 25902676 |
| [detection of four parasitic infections using elisa]. | to study the detection effects of elisa for the infections of cysticercus, echinococcosus, paragonimus westermani and sparganum mansoni in order to improve diagnosis. | 2013 | 24024464 |
| pulmonary sparganosis mansoni: a case report from a non-endemic region. | sparganosis mansoni is a parasitic disease caused by the larva of spirometra mansoni. it occurs worldwide, but only a few patients show pulmonary involvement. here, we present a case of pulmonary sparganosis mansoni in a non-endemic region. a 32-year-old chinese woman presented with intermittent bloody phlegm, peripheral blood eosinophilia, and migratory patch shadows in both lungs. she had been misdiagnosed with eosinophilic pneumonia. she had a history of eating raw frogs, and the sparganum ma ... | 2014 | 24977019 |
| [diagnosis and treatment for four cases of sparganosis mansoni]. | the data of 4 sparganosis mansoni cases were collected from january 2010 to september 2014, and analyzed by descriptive epidemiological methods. among the cases, 3 cases had a history of eating raw frogs, and 1 case had a history of eating half-cooked frogs and drinking unboiled water. all cased and 3 out of 7 persons eating raw frogs together with case 3 were positive for anti-sparganum mansoni antibody. 2 patients were cured by operation removal and praziquantel+alhendazole treatment, and the ... | 2015 | 26245124 |
| sparganosis presenting as pericardial effusion and lung lesions. | we herein report a rare form of sparganosis in a 29-year-old man presenting with pericardial effusion and lung lesions. the diagnosis was confirmed by the patient's history of eating inadequately cooked snake, significant elevated eosinophils in the peripheral blood and pericardial effusion, and marked positive reactions against sparganum mansoni antigen in the serum. after two consecutive doses of praziquantel treatment, the patient's symptoms and laboratory and imaging findings were improved. ... | 2015 | 25948364 |
| [pleural sparganosis: report of a case and review of the literature]. | to improve the understanding of pleural sparganosis by analyzing a clinical case and literature review. | 2014 | 25351268 |
| increased fdg uptake of the bone marrow mimicking malignancy in a patient of eosinophilia secondary to sparganum mansoni infection. | secondary eosinophilia is usually associated with parasitosis in third world countries. we present a case of eosinophilia secondary to sparganum mansoni infection showing multifocal fdg uptake in the axial bones mimicking malignancy. bone marrow aspirations and biopsy revealed remarkable proliferation of eosinophils which may be related to the increased fdg uptake. this case indicates that secondary eosinophilia associated with parasitosis may be one cause of diffuse fdg uptake in the bone marro ... | 2014 | 23877523 |
| a case of sparganosis mansoni in the thigh: serological validation of cure following surgery. | cases of sparganum mansoni, caused by the plerocercoid larva of the tapeworm s. mansoni, occur throughout the world, particularly in asian, middle eastern, and european countries. however, cases of infection with this parasite are rarely seen in japan. here, we present a case of a 61-year-old woman with a solitary subcutaneous nodule in left inner aspect of the thigh, from which a long, slender, whitish worm was surgically removed. the parasite was histopathologically identified as s. mansoni. s ... | 2012 | 23109970 |
| [pathogen identification of 10 suspected cases of sparganosis mansoni]. | to diagnose 10 cases of clinically suspected cases of sparganosis mansoni by pathogen identification. | 2012 | 23072141 |
| [efficacy of albendazole for treatment of mice infected with sparganum mansoni]. | in order to observe the efficacy of albendazole for the treatment of mice infected with sparganum mansoni, a total of 72 mice were divided into 8 groups (9 mice each), each mouse was orally infected with 5 plerocercoid. at one week after infection, groups a-c were treated with a 7-day course of albendazole (1700, 2500, and 3300 mg/kg, twice daily), and sacrificed at 1 week post-treatment; groups e-g were treated with the second course of albendazole with the same dosage at 1 week interval after ... | 2012 | 22913197 |