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Taeniasis is a very rare parasitic infection in Palestine with very few annual cases of unknown species. The infection rate and the disease status are not clear due to the lack of reports about the actual number of patients.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Two Palestinian patients; one male of 22\u00a0years old from Hebron and the other is female of 33\u00a0years old from Ramallah were referred to Palestinian Health Services in the West Bank, Palestine, complained of weight loss, abdominal pain and presence of motile segments of creamy color in the their stool. Microscopic analysis of the stool samples from infected cases revealed\n                      <jats:italic>Taenia<\/jats:italic>\n                      eggs and proglottids, confirmed taeniasis infection. The parasite species was identified as\n                      <jats:italic>T. saginata<\/jats:italic>\n                      by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing of the cytochrome oxidase -1 (\n                      <jats:italic>COX<\/jats:italic>\n                      -1) gene.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Taeniasis is an unusual parasitic infection in Palestine, there is a growing concern that the actual numbers of infected individuals are much higher and the occurrence of human taeniasis is principally due to people\u2019s eating habits in consumption of raw or undercooked beef meat. This report highlighted for the first time the existence of taeniasis infection in the country; which necessitates the need to conduct further research and surveillance to reveal the actual infection rate and the available\n                      <jats:italic>Taenia<\/jats:italic>\n                      species.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13256-024-04351-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,13]],"date-time":"2024-02-13T20:02:21Z","timestamp":1707854541000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Molecular diagnosis of Taenia saginata from two patients in Palestine:  two\u00a0case reports"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Mohammad","family":"Asees","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Issam","family":"Jawabreh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Omar","family":"Hamarsheh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ziad","family":"Abdeen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ayoub","family":"Assi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kifaya","family":"Azmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"4351_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"133","DOI":"10.1016\/bs.apar.2019.12.004","volume":"108","author":"KS Eom","year":"2020","unstructured":"Eom KS, Rim HJ, Jeon HK. 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