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A 10cm parasitic tapeworm lived in a man’s brain for four years before doctors realised it was there, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old man, who has not been named, visited doctors in 2008 suffering from headaches, seizures, memory loss and complaining about his sense of smell.<\/p>\n

Specialists were stumped when an MRI scan showed a bunch of what appeared to be lesions that kept moving.<\/p>\n

Scans over the next four years showed it had moved by at least 5cm through brain tissue.<\/p>\n

Doctors at St Thomas\u2019 Hospital in London tested the man for a string of diseases included HIV, lime disease, syphilis as his condition continued to puzzle the experts.<\/p>\n

But in 2012 medics found the remains of a “10 cm ribbon-shaped larval worm”. The man was then given drugs to kill the parasite and has made a complete recovery, reports the Genome Biology journal.<\/p>\n

Once diagnosed the man, who is of Chinese origin but lives in East Anglia, was treated easily with drugs to kill the worm and has now completely recovered.<\/p>\n

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Under the microscope: Scans show the parasitic worm<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tapeworm was a Spirometra erinaceieuropaei \u2013 a worm that infects domestic animals and humans. There have been just 300 reported cases worldwide since 1953 and it has never been seen before in the UK.<\/p>\n

It causes inflammation of the body\u2019s tissues and in the brain can lead to seizures, memory loss and headaches.<\/p>\n

Experts say people may be infected by accidentally swallowing infected crustaceans from lakes or eating raw meat from reptiles and amphibians.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not expect to see an infection of this kind in the UK, but global travel means that unfamiliar parasites do sometimes appear,\u201d says Dr Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, study author from the Department of Infectious Disease, Addenbrooke\u2019s NHS Trust.<\/p>\n

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Wriggle room: Scans dating from July 2008 through to June 2012 show how a tapeworm burrowed its way through a man’s brain in the first case of its type ever seen in Britain<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe can now diagnose sparganosis using MRI scans, but this does not give us the information we need to identify the exact tapeworm species and its vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur work shows that, even with only tiny amounts of DNA from clinical samples, we can find out all we need to identify and characterise the parasite.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more extraordinary x-ray images, take a look at our gallery below:<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: Mirror UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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