Microbiologia Medica (Sep 2011)

A false case of infection caused by Dicrocoelium dendriticum

  • Cinzia Rossi,
  • Claudia Canale,
  • Franco Gandini,
  • Leonardo Lodolo,
  • Nino Cappuccia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2011.2358
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 3

Abstract

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We describe a false case of infection caused by Dicrocoelium dendriticum, a cosmopolite trematode that can infect human bile ducts but tends to live in cattle or other grazing mammals. Our aim is to stress the relevance of adequate diagnostic methods and of exact medical history in order to detect any possible clinical case.

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