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Human gnathostomiasis is an infection by the migrating third-stage larvae of any of five species of Gnathostoma.The most common cause in Asia is G. spinigerum, and the most common cause in the Americas is G. binucleatum.
The secondary screwworm, C. macellaria, is a flesh-eating fly whose larvae consume only necrotic tissue, either that of carrion or of an animal or human host (myiasis). This important distinction between C. macellaria and C. hominivorax was not understood for much of medical history; myiasis of humans and animals was viewed as universally ...
Scarabiasis, or "beetle-disease", is a condition where beetles temporarily infest the digestive tract of other animals. It can also affect humans, and despite being a rare phenomenon, [1] it is the second most important insectal disease in humans after myiasis, which is caused by the larva of flies.
The post-larva is known as the glaucothoe, after a genus named by Henri Milne-Edwards in 1830. [1] The glaucothoe is 3 millimetres (0.12 in) long in Pagurus longicarpus , but glaucothoe larvae up to 20 mm (0.79 in) are known, and were once thought to represent animals which had failed to develop correctly. [ 1 ]
Sparganosis is a parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid larvae of the genus Spirometra including S. mansoni, S. ranarum, S. mansonoides and S. erinacei. [1] [2] It was first described by Patrick Manson in 1882, [3] and the first human case was reported by Charles Wardell Stiles from Florida in 1908. [4]
Cutaneous larva migrans (abbreviated CLM) is a skin disease in humans, caused by the larvae of various nematode parasites of the hookworm family (Ancylostomatidae).The parasites live in the intestines of dogs, cats, and wild animals; they should not be confused with other members of the hookworm family for which humans are definitive hosts, namely Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.
Bird flu is a scary illness with a high mortality rate. But so far, infections in the U.S. have been relatively mild—until now. A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of ...
The symptoms of leishmaniasis are skin sores which erupt weeks to months after the person is bitten by infected sandflies. Leishmaniasis may be divided into the following types: [ 15 ] Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form, which causes an open sore at each bite site, which heals in a few months to a year and a half, leaving an ...