DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIUM

Infection with dicrocoelium dendriticum in humans is seldom to be reported in egypt. this liver fluke,which commonly infects ruminants,has a complex life cycle with two intermediate hosts; the land snail and the ant. human infection occurs by accidental ingestion of the second intermediate host. the present reported a patient suffered from recurrent acute chole-cystitis with chronic urinary schistosomiasis whose kato stool examination showed dicroceolium dendriticum eggs. he was successfully treated with mirazid.