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Diphyllobothriasis

MedGen UID:
3858
•Concept ID:
C0012561
•
Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: Diphyllobothriases; Diphyllobothrium Infection; Diphyllobothrium Infections; Infection, Diphyllobothrium
SNOMED CT: Fish tapeworm infection (187151009); Diphyllobothrium infection (187151009); Diphyllobothriasis (187151009); Intestinal diphyllobothriasis (359799003)
Modes of inheritance:
Not genetically inherited
MedGen UID:
988794
•Concept ID:
CN307044
•
Finding
Source: Orphanet
clinical entity without genetic inheritance.
See: This record
Not genetically inherited (Orphanet)
 
Monarch Initiative: MONDO:0015260
Orphanet: ORPHA128

Definition

Bothriocephalosis is a mammalian cosmopolitan intestinal parasitosis. In addition to non-specific digestive problems (nausea, abdominal pain, lack of appetite), bothriocephalosis provokes an anaemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency that resembles Biermer anaemia (anaemia characterised by abnormally large red blood cells). [from ORDO]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVDiphyllobothriasis

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Biology, Epidemiology, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Selected Fish-borne Parasitic Zoonoses.
Cong W, Elsheikha HM
Yale J Biol Med 2021 Jun;94(2):297-309. Epub 2021 Jun 30 PMID: 34211350Free PMC Article
Single low-dose treatment with praziquantel for Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense infections.
Ohnishi K, Kato Y
Intern Med 2003 Jan;42(1):41-3. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.41. PMID: 12583616

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Intestinal parasites in the Neolithic population who built Stonehenge (Durrington Walls, 2500 BCE).
Mitchell PD, Anastasiou E, Whelton HL, Bull ID, Parker Pearson M, Shillito LM
Parasitology 2022 Jul;149(8):1027-1033. Epub 2022 May 20 doi: 10.1017/S0031182022000476. PMID: 35592918Free PMC Article
A regional study of the zoonotic broad tapeworm Dibothriocephalus spp. in Northwestern Patagonia (Argentina): origin of fishes and coastal cities as factors affecting infection in fishes.
Semenas L, Viozzi G, Arbetman M
Parasitol Res 2021 Jul;120(7):2415-2427. Epub 2021 Apr 14 doi: 10.1007/s00436-021-07150-7. PMID: 33851249
Dibothriocephalus nihonkaiensis: an emerging foodborne parasite in Brittany (France)?
Autier B, Belaz S, Degeilh B, Gangneux JP, Robert-Gangneux F
Parasit Vectors 2019 May 28;12(1):267. doi: 10.1186/s13071-019-3516-6. PMID: 31138323Free PMC Article
Epidemiology of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Diphyllobothriasis, Japan, 2001-2016.
Ikuno H, Akao S, Yamasaki H
Emerg Infect Dis 2018 Aug;24(8):1428-34. doi: 10.3201/eid2408.171454. PMID: 30016246Free PMC Article
Fish-borne parasitic zoonoses: status and issues.
Chai JY, Darwin Murrell K, Lymbery AJ
Int J Parasitol 2005 Oct;35(11-12):1233-54. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.07.013. PMID: 16143336

Diagnosis

Biology, Epidemiology, Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Selected Fish-borne Parasitic Zoonoses.
Cong W, Elsheikha HM
Yale J Biol Med 2021 Jun;94(2):297-309. Epub 2021 Jun 30 PMID: 34211350Free PMC Article
Tapeworm Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Cestoda)--neglected or emerging human parasite?
Kuchta R, Brabec J, Kubáčková P, Scholz T
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2013;7(12):e2535. Epub 2013 Dec 26 doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002535. PMID: 24386497Free PMC Article
Intestinal cestodes.
Craig P, Ito A
Curr Opin Infect Dis 2007 Oct;20(5):524-32. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0b013e3282ef579e. PMID: 17762788
Tapeworms (cestodiasis).
Schantz PM
Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1996 Sep;25(3):637-53. doi: 10.1016/s0889-8553(05)70267-3. PMID: 8863044
Intestinal parasites.
Knight R, Schultz MG, Hoskins DW, Marsden PD
Gut 1973 Feb;14(2):145-68. doi: 10.1136/gut.14.2.145. PMID: 4572292Free PMC Article

Therapy

Diphyllobothriasis from Eating Sushi.
Ando Y, Ono Y, Ono S
Am J Trop Med Hyg 2021 Apr 12;104(6):1953-1954. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0105. PMID: 33844646Free PMC Article
Diphyllobothriasis.
Nakaji K, Nakae Y, Kumamoto M, Suzumura S
Intern Med 2009;48(16):1479. Epub 2009 Aug 17 doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2383. PMID: 19687603
Foodborne diseases: seafood.
Munoz J
Pediatr Infect Dis J 1999 Oct;18(10):910-1. doi: 10.1097/00006454-199910000-00015. PMID: 10530590
Diphyllobothriasis.
Barclay WR
JAMA 1981 Nov 27;246(21):2483. PMID: 7299975
Intestinal parasites.
Knight R, Schultz MG, Hoskins DW, Marsden PD
Gut 1973 Feb;14(2):145-68. doi: 10.1136/gut.14.2.145. PMID: 4572292Free PMC Article

Prognosis

The prevalence of helminthiases in North-Western Siberia rural indigenous and long-term resident people in 1988-89 and 2018-19.
Kozlov A, Vershubskaya G
Int J Circumpolar Health 2021 Dec;80(1):1917270. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2021.1917270. PMID: 33899703Free PMC Article
Food and water security issues in Russia III: food- and waterborne diseases in the Russian Arctic, Siberia and the Far East, 2000-2011.
Dudarev AA, Dorofeyev VM, Dushkina EV, Alloyarov PR, Chupakhin VS, Sladkova YN, Kolesnikova TA, Fridman KB, Nilsson LM, Evengard B
Int J Circumpolar Health 2013;72:21856. Epub 2013 Dec 9 doi: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21856. PMID: 24350064Free PMC Article
Invasive tapeworm infections in Poland in 2011.
Czarkowski MP, Gołab E
Przegl Epidemiol 2013;67(2):263-6, 365-7. PMID: 24040730
Evaluation of an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot test for the confirmatory serodiagnosis of human toxocariasis.
Roldán WH, Espinoza YA
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2009 May;104(3):411-8. doi: 10.1590/s0074-02762009000300003. PMID: 19547865
Diphyllobothriasis associated with eating raw pacific salmon.
Arizono N, Yamada M, Nakamura-Uchiyama F, Ohnishi K
Emerg Infect Dis 2009 Jun;15(6):866-70. doi: 10.3201/eid1506.090132. PMID: 19523283Free PMC Article

Clinical prediction guides

An examination of nervous system revealed unexpected immunoreactivity of both secretory apparatus and excretory canals in plerocercoids of two broad tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea).
Barčák D, Alexovič Matiašová A, Čisovská Bazsalovicsová E, Soldánová M, Oros M, Králová-Hromadová I
Parasitology 2023 Jun;150(7):612-622. Epub 2023 Mar 20 doi: 10.1017/S0031182023000306. PMID: 36938799Free PMC Article
Epidemiology of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Diphyllobothriasis, Japan, 2001-2016.
Ikuno H, Akao S, Yamasaki H
Emerg Infect Dis 2018 Aug;24(8):1428-34. doi: 10.3201/eid2408.171454. PMID: 30016246Free PMC Article
Four Human Cases of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense (Eucestoda: Diphyllobothriidae) in China with a Brief Review of Chinese Cases.
Cai YC, Chen SH, Yamasaki H, Chen JX, Lu Y, Zhang YN, Li H, Ai L, Chen HN
Korean J Parasitol 2017 Jun;55(3):319-325. Epub 2017 Jun 30 doi: 10.3347/kjp.2017.55.3.319. PMID: 28719957Free PMC Article
Parasitic infections based on 320 clinical samples submitted to Hanyang University, Korea (2004-2011).
Choi SC, Lee SY, Song HO, Ryu JS, Ahn MH
Korean J Parasitol 2014 Apr;52(2):215-20. Epub 2014 Apr 18 doi: 10.3347/kjp.2014.52.2.215. PMID: 24850969Free PMC Article
Current situation of human diphyllobothriasis in Europe.
Dupouy-Camet J, Peduzzi R
Euro Surveill 2004 May;9(5):31-5. PMID: 15208471

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