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  2. Paragonimus westermani - Wikipedia

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    Paragonimus westermani (Japanese lung fluke or oriental lung fluke) is the most common species of lung fluke that infects humans, causing paragonimiasis. [2] Human infections are most common in eastern Asia and in South America. Paragonimiasis may present as a sub-acute to chronic inflammatory disease of the lung. It was discovered by Dutch ...

  3. Paragonimiasis - Wikipedia

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    Paragonimiasis is a food-borne parasitic disease caused by several species of lung flukes belonging to genus Paragonimus. [4] Infection is acquired by eating crustaceans such as crabs and crayfishes which host the infective forms called metacercariae, or by eating raw or undercooked meat of mammals harboring the metacercariae from crustaceans.

  4. Paragonimus - Wikipedia

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    Paragonimus is a genus of flukes and is the only genus in the monotypic family Paragonimidae.Some tens of species have been described, but they are difficult to distinguish, so it is not clear how many of the named species may be synonyms.

  5. Angiostrongylus cantonensis - Wikipedia

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    Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a nematode (roundworm) parasite that causes angiostrongyliasis, an infection that is the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin. [3]

  6. Schistosoma - Wikipedia

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    Schistosoma is a genus of trematodes, commonly known as blood flukes. They are parasitic flatworms responsible for a highly significant group of infections in humans termed schistosomiasis , which is considered by the World Health Organization to be the second-most socioeconomically devastating parasitic disease (after malaria ), infecting ...

  7. Schistosoma mansoni - Wikipedia

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    Bilharz also noted that the adult flukes were different in anatomy and number of eggs they produced. [77] He introduced the terms bilharzia and bilharziasis for the name of the infection in 1856. A German zoologist David Friedrich Weinland corrected the genus name to Schistosoma in 1858; and introduced the disease name as schistosomiasis.

  8. Sparganosis - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Trematodiasis - Wikipedia

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    Fasciola hepatica, a species of liver flukes, has a higher incidence rate in children and females, with more cases of lung fluke and intestinal trematodiases in children. [5] Cases of liver and lung fluke trematodiasis are frequent due to the length of time the trematode can live in host organisms, and increased chances of reinfection.

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