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Ferric C Fang1, Zachary P Billman2, Carolyn K Wallis3
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA fcfang@uw.edu.
Abstract:
A patient in Washington State harbored a fish tapeworm most likely acquired from eating raw salmon. Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense was identified by cox1 sequence analysis. Although this is the first documented human D. nihonkaiense infection in the United States, the parasite may have been present earlier but misidentified as Diphyllobothrium latum.
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