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We report for the first time in Switzerland a clinical case because of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum, identified by molecular methods. We discuss the potential for this imported species to infect local intermediate hosts and thus to achieve autochthonous cyclic transmission.
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We would like to thank all the staff members of the LEM (ICM, Bellinzona). Thanks are due to the patient and her husband, who accepted to provide spontaneous information on the possible mode of infection. We are grateful to Dr. Orlando Petrini for the English revision of the manuscript. We mention that all the experiments performed in this paper comply with the current laws of Switzerland.
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Nucleotide sequences data reported in this paper are available in the EMBL, GenBank and DDJB databases under the accession numbers AM412738 and AM412739.
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Wicht, B., de Marval, F., Gottstein, B. et al. Imported diphyllobothriasis in Switzerland: molecular evidence of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Nitsch, 1824). Parasitol Res 102, 201–204 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-007-0745-y
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