"Doc, there's a worm in my stool": Munchausen parasitosis in a returning traveler

J Travel Med. 2002 Nov-Dec;9(6):330-2. doi: 10.2310/7060.2002.30179.

Abstract

Although delusional parasitosis is frequently diagnosed by travel medicine and infectious disease specialists, factitious illness/Munchausen syndrome is extremely rare.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Albendazole / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Anthelmintics / therapeutic use
  • Ascariasis / diagnosis*
  • Ascariasis / drug therapy
  • Ascaris lumbricoides*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Feces / parasitology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Munchausen Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Oligochaeta
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Anthelmintics
  • Albendazole