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Echinostoma
Sign in to saveEchinostoma is a genus of trematodes (flukes), which can infect both humans and other animals. These intestinal flukes have a three-host life cycle with snails or other aquatic organisms as intermediate hosts, and a variety of animals, including humans, as their definitive hosts.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassTrematoda
- OrderPlagiorchiida
- FamilyEchinostomatidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 270
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Echinostomatidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
Research
1,046 papers- Echinostoma and echinostomiasis.Advances in parasitology · 1990
- Taxonomy of Echinostoma revolutum and 37-Collar-Spined Echinostoma spp.: A Historical Review.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2020
- Echinostoma ilocanum infection.Indian pediatrics · 1998
- Rare Case of Echinostoma cinetorchis Infection, South Korea.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024
- Echinostoma population regulation in experimental rodent definitive hosts.Parasitology research · 1988
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Morphology
- Geographic distribution
- Life cycle
- Echinostomiasis
- Epidemiology of echinostomiasis
- Pathogenesis
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- References
Echinostoma is a genus of trematodes (flukes), which can infect both humans and other animals. These intestinal flukes have a three-host life cycle with snails or other aquatic organisms as intermediate hosts, and a variety of animals, including humans, as their definitive hosts.
Echinostoma infect the gastrointestinal tract of humans, and can cause a disease known as echinostomiasis. The parasites are spread when humans or animals eat infected raw or undercooked food, such as bivalve molluscs or fish.
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