Sympatric occurrence of Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica, Thailand

Malinee T Anantaphruti; Hiroshi Yamasaki; Minoru Nakao; Jitra Waikagul; Dorn Watthanakulpanich; Supaporn Nuamtanong; Wanna Maipanich; Somchit Pubampen; Surapol Sanguankiat; Chatree Muennoo; Kazuhiro Nakaya; Marcello O Sato; Yasuhito Sako; Munehiro Okamoto; Akira Ito

doi:10.3201/eid1309.061148

Sympatric occurrence of Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica, Thailand

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Sep;13(9):1413-6. doi: 10.3201/eid1309.061148.

Authors

Malinee T Anantaphruti¹, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Minoru Nakao, Jitra Waikagul, Dorn Watthanakulpanich, Supaporn Nuamtanong, Wanna Maipanich, Somchit Pubampen, Surapol Sanguankiat, Chatree Muennoo, Kazuhiro Nakaya, Marcello O Sato, Yasuhito Sako, Munehiro Okamoto, Akira Ito

Affiliation

¹ Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Abstract

We confirmed sympatric occurrence of Taenia solium, T. saginata, and T. asiatica in western Thailand. DNA analysis of morphologically identified T. saginata, in a dual infection with T. solium, indicated it was T. asiatica. To our knowledge, this report is the first of T. asiatica and a dual Taenia infection from Thailand.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Animals
Child
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Taenia / isolation & purification*
Taeniasis / epidemiology*
Taeniasis / parasitology*
Thailand / epidemiology