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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2004, p. 3891-3893, Vol. 42, No. 8
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3891-3893.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Solitary Neurocysticercosis Case Caused by Asian Genotype of Taenia solium Confirmed by Mitochondrial DNA Analysis

Hiroshi Yamasaki,1* Shigeo Matsunaga,2,{dagger} Koji Yamamura,2 Chia-Cheng Chang,2 Shunji Kawamura,3,{ddagger} Yasuhito Sako,1 Minoru Nakao,1 Kazuhiro Nakaya,4 and Akira Ito1

Department of Parasitology,1 Animal Laboratory for Medical Research, Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa,4 Department of Neurosurgery, Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital,2 and Department of Pathology, Yokohama Rosai Hospital, Yokohama, Japan3

Received 25 December 2003/ Returned for modification 31 March 2004/ Accepted 20 April 2004

A Japanese woman presenting with neurologic symptoms was presumptively diagnosed with neurocysticercosis based on imaging findings. Hooklets in the scolex of the resected lesion were not confirmed through histopathological observation. However, the illness was confirmed by mitochondrial DNA analysis to be a solitary neurocysticercosis case caused by the Asian genotype of Taenia solium.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical College, Midorigaoka Higashi 2-1-1-1, Asahikawa 078-8510, Japan. Phone: 81 166 68 2421. Fax: 81 166 68 2429. E-mail: hyamasak{at}asahikawa-med.ac.jp.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital, Yokohama Medical Center, Yokohama 245-8575, Japan.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2004, p. 3891-3893, Vol. 42, No. 8
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3891-3893.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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