Abstract
An ocular cysticercosis case of a nine-year-old Balinese girl in Indonesia is reported. She presented with redness and pain in the left eye and showed a cysticercus in the anterior chamber in December 2010. Morphological feature of the cysticercus removed from the anterior chamber indicated that it was an immature cysticercus of Taenia species with no hooklets. However, mitochondrial DNA analysis using a piece of histopathological specimen revealed it a cysticercus of Taenia solium Asian genotype. Serology by immunoblot and ELISA highly specific to cysticercosis was negative.
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Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Anterior Chamber / parasitology
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Anterior Chamber / surgery
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Child
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Cysticercosis / diagnosis*
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Cysticercosis / parasitology
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Cysticercosis / surgery
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Cysticercus / cytology
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Cysticercus / genetics
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Cysticercus / isolation & purification*
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DNA, Mitochondrial / chemistry
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DNA, Mitochondrial / genetics
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Eye / parasitology
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Eye / pathology
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Eye Infections, Parasitic / diagnosis*
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Eye Infections, Parasitic / parasitology
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Eye Infections, Parasitic / surgery
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Female
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Humans
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Indonesia
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Serologic Tests
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Taenia solium / cytology
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Taenia solium / genetics
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Taenia solium / isolation & purification*