DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIUM

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Qena South Valley University, Egypt.

2 Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Qena South Valley University, Egypt.

Abstract

Infection with Dicrocoelium dendriticum in humans is seldom to be reported in Egypt. This liver fluke, which commonly infects ruminants, has a complex life cycle with two intermediate hosts; the land snail and the ant. Human infection occurs by accidental ingestion of the second intermediate host. The present reported a patient suffered from recurrent acute chole-cystitis with chronic urinary schistosomiasis whose Kato stool examination showed Dicroceolium dendriticum eggs. He
was successfully treated with Mirazid

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