A CASE OF DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS FROM EHIME PREFECTURE
10.2185/jjrm.27.75
- VernacularTitle:愛媛県における広節裂頭条虫症の1例
- Author:
Kazumitsu HIRAI
;
Hiroshi NISHIDA
;
Kuninori SHIWAKU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1978;27(1):75-78
- CountryJapan
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Some fragments of gravid proglottids of diphyllobothriid cestodes were evacuatedspontaneously, and complete strobila with scolex was expelled after the treatment with bithionol from a 35-year-old man in Ehime Prefecture, Where diphyllobothriasis has scarcely been recorded. The cestodes was identified as Diphyllobothrium latum by the following morphological characters: thin, weakly muscled strobila, with clavate scolex: distal end of uterus extending posteromediad to uterin pore, forming an acute angle with ventral surface of segment, genital pore and uterine pore widely separated; vagina turning abruptly ventrad just ventral to seminal vesicle, forming an angle of near 60°; there is a constriction between segments and often an area without testes and vitellaria; ovary with no anterior horns seen; the smooth surface of the egg-shell with shallow and widely spaced pits (scanning electron micrograph)
