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Hepatic paragonimiasis in a 15-month-old girl: a case report

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Title
Hepatic paragonimiasis in a 15-month-old girl: a case report
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BMC Pediatrics, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12887-017-0942-5
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Zongrong Gong, Zhicheng Xu, Chuanfen Lei, Chaomin Wan

Abstract

Paragonimiasis, particularly hepatic paragonimiasis (HP), is a type of zoonotic parasitic disease rarely encountered in infants. There have been only a few reports of HP, and no case of HP has been reported in an infant. A 15-month-old girl presented with persistent mild fever with a duration of 1 month, hepatomegaly, and low-density lesions in the right hepatic lobe on abdominal ultrasound and computer tomography. Pathological examination and serum antibody detection were performed to verify HP. The diagnosis of HP was established based on findings of Charcot-Leyden crystals on liver lesion biopsy and antibodies against paragonimus westermani detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. After initiation of praziquantel (75 mg/kg/day for 3 days), all clinical findings promptly improved and the patient was discharged. It is very important to consider paragonimiasis in the clinical examination of infants from an area with paragonimiasis epidemic presenting with fever, hepatomegaly, low-density lesions in the liver.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 1 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Student > Master 1 10%
Student > Postgraduate 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 30%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 10%
Physics and Astronomy 1 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 10%
Unknown 4 40%
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#20,452,930
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#2,626
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#21
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