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Molecular Diagnosis of Human Taenia martis Eye Infection #MMPMID26928837
Koch T; Schoen C; Muntau B; Addo M; Ostertag H; Wiechens B; Tappe D
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2016[May]; 94 (5): 1055-7 PMID26928837show ga
Taenia martis, a tapeworm harbored in the intestine of mustelids, is a rarely encountered zoonotic cysticercosis pathogen. The larval stage closely resembles the Taenia solium cysticercus, but the natural host and thus the epidemiology of the disease is different. We here report a human eye infection diagnosed molecularly in a previously healthy female German patient. The case represents the third human infection described worldwide; the two previous cases were also European, involving eye and brain.