Spirometra erinaceieuropaei is a parasitic tapeworm that infects domestic animals and humans. The medical term for this infection in humans and other animals is sparganosis. [1] Morphologically, these worms are similar to other worms in the genus Spirometra. They have a long body consisting of three sections: the scolex, the neck, and the ...

Sparganosis is infection by the third-stage plerocercoid larva (sparganum) of pseudophyllidean cestodes of the genera Spirometra and Sparganum, the latter of which may be an aberrant Spirometra sp. The definitive hosts for Spirometra spp. are canids and felids, and humans serve as only paratenic or second intermediate hosts for the parasites ...

2014年11月21日 · Sparganosis is an infection with a larval Diphyllobothriidea tapeworm. From a rare cerebral case presented at a clinic in the UK, DNA was recovered from a biopsy sample and used to determine the causative species as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei through sequencing of …

About Spirometra erinaceieuropaei. The plerocercoid larva of the cestode Spirometra erinaceieuropaei can infect domestic animals and humans (known as sparganosis). Humans can ingest the larva through an intermediate host - for example freshwater copepods, frogs or snakes.

At present, the species of the genus Spirometra, whose mitochondrial gene sequences have been determined, include S. erinaceieuropaei (S. erinacei), S. decipiens and S. ranarum. Reportedly, the first 2 kinds have been found and genetically identified in human patients in South Korea [ 8 ] and the last kind is found in Myanmar recently [ 9 ].

2020年11月10日 · Currently, Spirometra erinaceieuropaei (Rudolphi 1819) is the species most often identified in natural environments in Europe (Kondzior et al. 2018; Kołodziej-Sobocińska et al. 2019; Scholz et al. 2019; Kuchta et al. 2020); however, recent data also reported the first confirmation of S. mansoni in amphibians in Romania (Kuchta et al. 2020).

2020年11月10日 · Spirometra larvae were found in the subcutaneous tissue of 172 animals of 7 species and confirmed genetically as S. erinaceieuropaei. The overall prevalence in all studied hosts was 29.5% with a mean infection intensity of 14.1 ± 33.8 larvae per individual.

2024年8月1日 · The first tapeworm currently classified in Spirometra was Dubium erinaceieuropaei Rudolphi, 1819, which was described from metacestodes (plerocercoids) found in a hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus L.) in Europe. The original description was very superficial and did not allow this species to be adequately characterised.

We report a series of 9 histologically confirmed human sparganosis cases in Hong Kong, China. All parasites were retrospectively identified as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei. Skin and soft tissue swelling was the most common symptom, followed by central nervous system lesions.

Through investigation of β-tubulin genes, we predict that S. erinaceieuropaei larvae are insensitive to the tapeworm drug albendazole. We find that many putative tapeworm drug targets are also present in S. erinaceieuropaei, allowing possible cross application of new drugs.