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First Record of Human Infection with the Tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense in North America

1 Feb 2008

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The tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea), originally described from Japan, is reported from a man in North America for the first time. Species identification was based on sequences of ribosomal (partial 18S rRNA) and mitochondrial (partial Cytochrome c Oxidase subunit I) genes of proglottids expelled from a Czech tourist who ate raw Pacific sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) from...

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PMID: 18256421
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.78.235

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