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  3. Coinfection with Hymenolepis nana and Hymenolepis diminuta infection in a child from North India: A rare case report

Coinfection with Hymenolepis nana and Hymenolepis diminuta infection in a child from North India: A rare case report

  • Trop Parasitol. 2020 Jan-Jun;10(1):56-58. doi: 10.4103/tp.TP_47_19.
Charu Singh 1,  Bhawna Sharma 1,  Aradhana Aneja 2,  Sadhna B Lal 2,  Sumeeta Khurana 1
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Medical Parasitology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
  • 2 Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
PMID: 32775295 DOI: 10.4103/tp.TP_47_19
Abstract

Hymenolepiasis is considered the most common tapeworm Infection throughout the world infecting 50-75 million people. Hymenolepis diminuta Infection is not commonly reported in human beings as compared to Hymenolepis nana because it is primarily a Parasite of rats and mice. There are few case reports of H. diminuta in the Indian population. To the best of our knowledge, not a single case of coinfection with H. nana and H. diminuta has been reported from India. We present here a rare case report of coinfection of H. nana and H. diminuta in a 4-year-old male child from a semirural area of India who presented with acute and severe colitis.

Keywords

Colitis; hymenolepis; tapeworm.

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