Figueredo GCR, Figueredo GLI

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ABSTRACT

It was made a descriptive study of the characteristics of Dipylidium caninum parasite and the clinical manifestations of the patients in the Provincial Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology; we proposed a clinical case diagnosed for the first time in the laboratory. We worked in 159 coproparasitologic studies from which there were obtained 3 positive samples of the Taenia of the Dog (Dipylidium caninum). From these 3 cases we realized that there was a year- old- child who did not present dehydration, he was not under weight, but he presented sleeplessness, prurit, injuries in both feet and the parasite was evidenced in his fecal feces. There were performed serial parasitologic studies to him during 7 days, showing the presence of the gravid proglotids with oviparous capsules. It was checked the existence of Dipylidium caninum intestinal parasites, based on the macroscopic and microscopic observations in the patient with clinical manifestations like diarrheas, sleeplessness, expulsion of fragments of the parasite, pruritus and injuries in the intestinal mucous. With this work, we proposed a clinical case in a human diagnosed in the laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Bayamo.

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