-Case Reports-

A 2-year-old Girl with Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection Treated with Oral Praziquantel and a Laxative

Atsushi Fujita, Makoto Migita, Takahiro Ueda and Yoshitaka Fukunaga

Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School

We report a case of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense infection in a 2-year-old Japanese girl. When infection occurs in early childhood, it is necessary to offer supportive care in addition to standard treatment with oral praziquantel or with of a duodenal tube using a radiopaque contrast medium. We treated D. nihonkaiense infection in a 2-year-old girl successfully treated with oral praziquantel and a laxative.

J Nippon Med Sch 2008; 75: 225-227

Keywords
Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense, child case, praziquantel insertion

Correspondence to
Atsushi Fujita, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
bxl02761@nms.ac.jp

Received, March 7, 2008
Accepted, April 18, 2008