RESUMEN
A 13-year-old boy was diagnosed as having intestinal capillariasis by gastroduodenoscopy. He presented with a 10-month history of chronic abdominal pain and diarrhea. The boy had stayed in central Thailand and had eaten uncooked fish and raw shellfish. Gastroduodenoscopy showed normal jejunal mucosa although histology revealed flattened villi, crypt proliferation, acute inflammation, and eosinophilic granulomata. An egg of Capillaria philippinensis was also seen. The child was treated with mebendazole for 30 days. He had gained six kilograms by the time of his last follow-up.
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Dolor Abdominal/parasitología , Adolescente , Animales , Antinematodos/uso terapéutico , Biopsia , Capillaria , Enfermedad Crónica , Diarrea/parasitología , Endoscopía del Sistema Digestivo/métodos , Infecciones por Enoplida/complicaciones , Granuloma Eosinófilo/parasitología , Heces/parasitología , Humanos , Inflamación , Parasitosis Intestinales/complicaciones , Enfermedades del Yeyuno/complicaciones , Masculino , Mebendazol/uso terapéutico , Recuento de Huevos de Parásitos , Alimentos Marinos/parasitología , TailandiaRESUMEN
The present paper deals with a buried knowledge of the early findings of the Hoeppli phenomenon in cattle infected with Schistosoma japonicum together with a revised list of bovines and other mammalian species in which this phenomenon has been found. It was noted that the percentage of the mature-egg granulomas with positive Hoeppli phenomena varied with the species of bovines, ie, higher positive percentage in the more susceptible cattle than in the less susceptible buffalos. The radiating filaments in fringes of the phenomenon were also stronger in cattle than in buffalos.