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1Nephrology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Inonu University School of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey.
Transplantation Proceedings
|September 13, 2015
Abstract:
We report the first case of dipylidiasis in a kidney transplant recipient. Watery diarrhea due to Dipylidium caninum was observed in a male patient who had been undergone kidney transplantation 2 years before. The patient was successfully treated with niclosamide. D. caninum should be considered as an agent of diarrhea in transplant patients.
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