opisthorchiasis

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Noun1.opisthorchiasis - infestation with flukes obtained from eating raw fish; common in eastern Asia
infestation - the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites
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Techasen et al., "Opisthorchiasis and cholangiocarcinoma in Southeast Asia: an unresolved problem," International Journal of General Medicine, vol.
In Italy, all the confirmed cases of opisthorchiasis were associated with the consumption of raw fillets of tench (Tinca tinca) (Pozio, Armignacco, Ferri, & Gomez Morales, 2013).
Until the end of the 60s of the last century, it was believed that the Ural River basin within Kazakhstan was free from opisthorchiasis, but a few years later, these findings were reviewed.
viverrini seem to differ; for example, cholelithiasis is one of the most serious complications of clonorchiasis but a rare complication of opisthorchiasis [6].
The importance of wildlife as reservoirs of human diseases has also been widely recognized for most of the parasitic zoonoses, including American and African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, balantidiasis, fascioliasis, opisthorchiasis, clonorchiasis, paragonimiasis, schistosomiasis, echinococcosis, taeniasis, diphyllobothriasis, sparganosis, dipylidiasis, trichinellosis, toxocariasis, strongyloidiasis, and Ancylostoma caninum and A.
Bethony, P Sithithaworn et al., "Opisthorchiasis and Opisthorchis-associated cholangiocarcinoma in Thailand and Laos," Acta Tropica, vol.
The Clonorchiasis opisthorchiasis is an important zoonotic infection of man causing gastro intestinal disturbances, heavy infections and cause recurrent attacks of cholengitis, pancreatitis, etc.
Heterophyes Heterophyiasis Intestinal People are heterophyes Also known as fluke typically metagonimiasis Small flukes asymptomatic; or intestinal that are less only rarely do dwarf fluke than 1 mm in people show infection size gastrointesti- nal symptoms (diarrhea and abdominal pain) and even rarer do they show extrain- testinal signs (infarcts to the heart and CNS) Opisthorchis Opisthorchiasis Liver fluke Liver disease felineus; Eggs are small similar to that Opisthorchis (15 to 30 seen with viverrini [micro]m), clonorhchiasis: operculated, cholangitis and yellow- and in later brown in stages liver color.
Induction of cytochrome P450 2A6 expression in humans by the carcinogenic parasite infection, opisthorchiasis viverrini.
To the Editor: Opisthorchiasis comprises diverse clinical manifestations caused by infections with Opisthorchis felineus or O.
Wilairatana et al., "Opisthorchiasis and intestinal fluke infections in Northern Thailand," Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, vol.
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