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PLoS Negl Trop Dis
February 2021
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom.
Paragonimiasis is caused by zoonotic trematodes of Paragonimus spp., found in Asia, the Americas and Africa, particularly in tropical regions. These parasites have a complex, multi-host life cycle, with mammalian definitive hosts and larval stages cycling through two intermediate hosts (snails and freshwater decapod crustaceans).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales
April 1981
The authors recapitulate in short the distribution of Paragonimiasis in West Africa. They establish and show keys for determination of adults and eggs of the agents of the disease (Paragonimus uterobilateralis, P. africanus, Poikilorchis congolensis).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurgical repair of an inguinal hernia in a 19-year-old man in Honduras revealed massive numbers of small granulomata containing trematode eggs on the omentum and other peritoneal surfaces. The eggs resembled those of Achillurbainia recondita Travassos, 1942, a species found in the maxillary sinuses of the opossum, Didelphis marsupialis. Species of Achillurbainis (syn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree unusual cases of mastoid abscess are described. Case histories and the clinical, laboratory, radiological, surgical, and histopathological findings in the patients are reported. Operculated eggs measuring about 60 mu times 40 mu were seen in pus obtained from two cases, but no adult worm was recovered.
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