A neglected risk for sparganosis: eating live tadpoles in central China

• Main Authors: Jing Cui (Author), Ye Wang (Author), Xi Zhang (Author), Xi-Meng Lin (Author), Hong-Wei Zhang (Author), Zhong-Quan Wang (Author), Jia-Xu Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract A 29-year-old farmer from central China was sent into the Emergency Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. He had a 15-day history of persistent high fever, abdominal distention and pain. The patient was clinically diagnosed as appendicitis and peritonitis, and treat...