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Infection of a Child in Minnesota by Bertiella Studeri (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae)

Horace W. Stunkard^*, Teodor Koivastik AND George R. Healy

A cestode, identified as Bertiella studeri, was obtained after therapy from a 5-year-old boy at Mankato, Minnesota. This case is apparently the first autochthonous infection of man by an anoplocephaline cestode reported in North America. The specimen is described and compared with specimens of B. studeri from a Rhesus monkey in Hamburg, Germany and a cotype of B. mucronata from the Helminthological Collection of the U.S. National Museum. Specificity in the genus Bertiella is discussed.

^* Research Associate in Parasitology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York.

Veterans Administration Hospital, Portland, Oregon.

Communicable Disease Center, U. S. Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia.