A 2-year-old girl with Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense infection treated with oral praziquantel and a laxative |
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| Authors: | Atsushi Fujita Makoto Migita Takahiro Ueda Yoshitaka Fukunaga |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. bxl02761@nms.ac.jp |
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| Abstract: | We report a case of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense infection in a 2-year-old Japanese girl. When infection occurs in early childhood, it is necessary to offer supportive care in addition to standard treatment with oral praziquantel or with of a duodenal tube using a radiopaque contrast medium. We treated D. nihonkaiense infection in a 2-year-old girl successfully treated with oral praziquantel and a laxative. |
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