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Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever [1] [2] [9] is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. [5] It affects the urinary tract or the intestines. [5] Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stool, or blood in the urine. [5]
Transmission of the infection to the human from the cat has been attributed to kissing the cat, providing care that exposes the person to the body fluids of the cat and sleeping with the cat. [1] [10] [3] Kittens are more likely to transmit the bacterium than adult cats. [10] Exposure to cats with this infection has been associated with ...
Nevertheless, infection via transport hosts such as rodents is the most common route of infection in adult cats. The larvae migrate in the transport host through the intestinal wall into the muscles or internal organs. In the cat, they are released during digestion. In the case of a filth infection, the cat itself ingests larval eggs. The ...
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Some studies even show multi-cat households have had one cat die and another be persistently infected. [2] [5] When cats survive infection they have persistent parasitemia which shows up in the blood as piroplasms, but these cats do not have the tissue phase again and therefore do not again show the clinical illness. [3] [5] [10]
Most infections in cats, and sometimes dogs, end like the second cat’s story, Petro said: “They get treated and it goes away.” What’s more, cats rarely spread S. schenckii infections.
Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia) is a parasitic infection caused by several species of the trematode genus, Schistosoma. [23] It primarily affects humans who come into contact with contaminated freshwater sources, such as rivers, lakes, or irrigation canals, where the parasite's intermediate host, freshwater snails ( Biomphalaria ...
Clinical presentation of an established S. intercalatum infection can be different in the local population and non-immune tourists. The majority of infections of foreign travelers are asymptomatic and go unnoticed. [13] Chronic schistosomiasis results in granulomata forming around eggs in the mesenteric vessels. [11]