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Review
. 2024 May;62(2):163-168.
doi: 10.3347/PHD.23118. Epub 2024 May 27.

Dipylidiasis cases in Japan-an update by literature survey

Yukifumi Nawa  1   2 , Akinori Furusawa  3 , Mio Tanaka  2 , Masahide Yoshikawa  4
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Dipylidiasis cases in Japan-an update by literature survey

Yukifumi Nawa et al. Parasites Hosts Dis. 2024 May.

Abstract

Dipylidium caninum is a cosmopolitan parasite of companion animals such as dogs and cats. Accidental infection in humans occur mostly in children. Although considerable number of cases were reported from Europe and the Americas, case reports of this zoonotic disease are rather scarce from Asian countries. The aim of this study is to report the results of literature survey on dipylidiasis cases in humans in Japan. Conclusively, we have found a total of 17 cases since the first case report in from Aichi Prefecture in 1925.

Keywords: Dipylidium caninum; Japan; humans.

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Conflict of interest: We have no conflict of interest related to this work.

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Moving creatures (arrows) in the stool of the patient recognized by his mother
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Geographical distribution of dipylidiasis cases in Japan. Note that the majority of cases were from central and southwestern Japan.
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The report of 2 cases of diplogonoporiasis by Kagei et al. [31]. (A) Translated into Chinese and (B) original publication. Note the differences of the name of parasite in the title of the Chinese-translated and original versions, which is highlighted in Fig. 4.
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Nomenclatures of Dipylidium caninum and Diprogonoporus grandis in Chinese and Japanese characters.
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