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John A. Hermos, MD; George R. Healy, PhD; Myron G. Schultz, DVM, MD, DCMT; John Barlow, MD; William G. Church, MD

JAMA. 1970;213(9):1461-1464.

Abstract
A 2-year-old boy from South Dakota died from an intracranial infection due to a parasitic cyst. The cyst was identified as the larval cyst, or coenurus, of the dog tapeworm Taenia multiceps. To our knowledge this is only the second case of cerebral coenurosis reported in the United States. Evidence suggests that rabbits were the intermediate host in this case.

Author Affiliations
From the Parasitic Diseases Branch, Epidemiology Program, National Communicable Disease Center (Drs. Hermos, Healy, and Schultz), and the Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD (Drs. Barlow and Church). Dr. Hermos is now with the Boston University Medical Center, Boston.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Parasitic Diseases Branch, Epidemiology Program, National Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta 30333 (Dr. Schultz).

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