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Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Synopsis

Co-infections in Visceral Pentastomiasis, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dennis TappeComments to Author , Mihály Sulyok, Therese Riu, Lajos Rózsa, Imre Bodó, Christoph Schoen, Birgit Muntau, Gergely Babocsay, and Richard Hardi
Author affiliations: Bernhard Nocht Institute, Hamburg, Germany (D. Tappe, B. Muntau); Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany (M. Sulyok); Hôpital Géneral de Reference de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo (T. Riu); MTA-ELTE-MTM Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary (L. Rózsa); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (I. Bodó); University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (C. Schoen); Mátra Museum of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Gyöngyös, Hungary (G. Babocsay); St. Raphael Ophthalmological Center, Mbuji Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (R. Hardi)

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Figure 1

Resected cystic pentastomid lesions extracted from patients during abdominal surgery, Sankuru District, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014–2015. A) Six abdominal cysts resected from patient 3, who was found to be coo-infected: 3 cysts each were Armillifer grandis and A. armillatus larvae, as determined by PCR. B) One of 2 resected A. armillatus cysts from patient 5. The fibrous capsule, the larva itself, and the parasite’s exuvia are shown. The larva has 20 annulations, morphologically consi

Figure 1. Resected cystic pentastomid lesions extracted from patients during abdominal surgery, Sankuru District, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014–2015. A) Six abdominal cysts resected from patient 3, who was found to be co-infected: 3 cysts each were Armillifer grandis and A. armillatus larvae, as determined by PCR. B) One of 2 resected A. armillatus cysts from patient 5. The fibrous capsule, the larva itself, and the parasite’s exuvia are shown. The larva has 20 annulations, morphologically consistent with the molecular result of A. armillatus. C) Resected and opened cyst from patient 5. The A. armillatus larva (as determined by PCR) is still embedded in its capsule. D) A. grandis larva from patient 2 with >25 annulations.

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