How to prevent Echinostoma?
How to prevent Echinostoma?
In human infections, praziquantel is the drug of choice for echinostomiasis. Mebendazole and albendazole have also been shown to have an effect against echinostomiasis. Eating raw or improperly cooked freshwater fish and fresh or brackish water snails should be avoided to prevent echinostome metacercarial infections.
What is Echinostomiasis?
Echinostomiasis is a food-borne infection caused by an intestinal trematodes belonging to the family Echinostomatidae. They infect the gastrointestinal tract of humans. Patients are usually asymptomatic.
What is Metacercaria larva?
Definition of metacercaria : a tailless encysted late larva of a digenetic trematode that is usually the form which is infective for the definitive host.
What is Heterophyiasis?
Heterophyiasis is infection with the intestinal fluke Heterophyes heterophyes, which is acquired by eating infected raw or undercooked fish from freshwater or brackish water.
What is Encysted Metacercaria?
Is echinostomiasis an endemic disease in Nepal?
To our knowledge, this is the first report of Echinostoma species infection in a human in Nepal, although echinostomiasis is regarded as endemic in Southeast Asia. Echinostomiasis is a food-borne, intestinal, zoonotic parasitosis usually infecting birds and mammals and only 23 species are known to cause infections in human [ 5, 6 ].
What is the history of Echinostoma ilocanum?
Echinostoma ilocanum was first discovered in residents of Manila, Philippines in 1907 [ 7 ]. Later, human infection with E. ilocanum was reported from Indonesia, China, Thailand and India [ 8 ]. E. malayanum was first reported by Leiper in labourers of Indian origin in Malaysia [ 9 ].
What is the genus and species of Echinostoma?
The trematode family Echinostomatidae includes numerous spiny-collared intestinal flukes known to infect humans. Infections are documented mostly from members of the genera Echinostoma (E. hortense, E. trivolvis, E. macrorchis, E. revolutum sensu lato, E. ilocanum, E. cinetorchis, E. echinatum [= lindoense ]) and E. fujianensis).
What causes Human echinostomiasis?
Human echinostomiasis is caused by digenetic trematodes of the genus Echinostoma (“echino” = spiny; “stoma” = mouth). Garrison first discovered this food-borne, intestinal, zoonotic, snail-mediated parasitosis in 1907 in Manila (Go, 2003).
