Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2007)

Sympatric Occurrence of Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica, Thailand

  • Malinee T. Anantaphruti,
  • Hiroshi Yamasaki,
  • Minoru Nakao,
  • Jitra Waikagul,
  • Dorn Watthanakulpanich,
  • Supaporn Nuamtanong,
  • Wanna Maipanich,
  • Somchit Pubampen,
  • Surapol Sanguankiat,
  • Chatree Muennoo,
  • Kazuhiro Nakaya,
  • Marcello O. Sato,
  • Yasuhito Sako,
  • Munehiro Okamoto,
  • Akira Ito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1309.061148
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 9
pp. 1413 – 1413

Abstract

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We confirmed sympatric occurrence of Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica in western Thailand. DNA analysis of morphologically identified T. saginata, in a dual infection with T. solium, indicated it was T. asiatica. To our knowledge, this report is the first of T. asiatica and a dual Taenia infection from Thailand.

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