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Sparganosis in Southern United States^*

J. Clyde Swartzwelder, Paul C. Beaver AND Marion W. Hood

Twenty-three cases of human sparganosis are reported. Of these, 21 were in residents of the southern United States, principally Louisiana, Texas and Florida. Two infections were in patients from Puerto Rico and British Honduras. Cases of sparganosis have been diagnosed annually since 1953, and except for two that were seen in 1948 and 1949, also reported herein, the infection had not been observed previously in Louisiana. With the addition of these 21 cases, the total number of naturally acquired infections reported for the United States to date is 35, of which 25 occurred in residents of Louisiana and adjoining states.

^* Supported by Grant AI-04919 from the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service.

Department of Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La.

Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La.

Department of Pathology, Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.

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