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<Articles JournalTitle="Iranian Journal of Parasitology">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Iranian Journal of Parasitology</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>1735-7020</Issn>
      <Volume>14</Volume>
      <Issue>4</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>12</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Taeniasis Saginata as Unexpected Cause in the Case of a Woman Scared of Getting Pregnant</title>
    <FirstPage>664</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>667</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>R. Heru</FirstName>
        <LastName>PRASETYO</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>10</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>12</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">This reported case occurred in non-endemic taeniasis area, and neither the patient nor her family members had habit of eating raw beef. So previously there was no suspicion of taeniasis, moreover the main complaint in the case of a 24-yr-old Javanese woman living in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, was that she wished to get pregnant. She scared of getting pregnant, because she felt weak and unfit which was not pretty good for fetus that will be conceived. Other complaint was only sometimes diarrhea. Laboratory test showed eosinophilia (12%). It caused suspicion of intestinal parasitic infection. The examination of stool specimen showed gravid proglottids and the eggs were identified from Taenia saginata tapeworm. Treatment with albendazole successfully expelled the adult worm, and as days passed by, she felt better and healthier, and after seven months we found her to be pregnant.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://ijpa.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijpa/article/view/2464</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
