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Pulmonary paragonimiasis in Cameroon

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1982
Paragonimus africanus has been known to be endemic in the Bakossi area of Meme Division of Cameroon since it was first described in 1952. After a lapse of 25 years, exploratory work was undertaken in the area (but not in the same villages) to study the prevalence of the disease, to record the common presenting symptoms, to make a number of paraclinical
P N, Kum, T C, Nchinda
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The Roentgen Characteristics of Pulmonary Paragonimiasis

Radiology, 1955
Two hundred and twenty-seven patients with pulmonary paragonimiasis were studied from a roentgenographic standpoint to ascertain whether or not characteristic patterns exist. The study was prompted by the impression that paragonimiasis did at times produce lesions which were roentgenographically indicative of the disease.
F L, MILLER, R, WALKER
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CT Findings in Pulmonary Paragonimiasis

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 1987
Observation chez un homme de 19 ans presentant depuis 1 semaine de la fievre et de la toux.
T, Singcharoen, W, Silprasert
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A rodent model for pulmonary paragonimiasis

Parasitology Research, 2003
This study reports a model of pulmonary paragonimiasis in outbred Wistar rats using the Indian strain of Paragonimus heterotremus isolated from the fresh water crab Barytelphusa lugubris collected from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Feeding metacercariae to the rats led to encapsulated adult worms in the lungs and pleural cavity. Some flukes migrated to the
Kanwar, Narain, K, Rekha Devi, J, Mahanta   +2 more
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PULMONARY PARAGONIMIASIS: REPORT OF A CASE

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1959
Excerpt Pulmonary paragonimiasis has rarely been studied in the United States. The case to be presented, the first admitted to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, afforded an unusual opportun...
D H, HARTER, S I, MORSE
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[Pleuro-pulmonary paragonimiasis].

Medecine et maladies infectieuses, 2005
Paragonimiasis is a food borne zoonosis due to a trematode belonging to the genus Paragonimus. Although present throughout the world, about 90% of the cases occur in Asia where around 20 million people are infected. The parasitic cycle is complex with two different intermediate hosts.
Strobel, M, Veasna, D, Saykham, M, Wei, Z, Tran, Ds, Valy, K, Odermatt, P, Dreyfuss, Gilles   +7 more
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Pulmonary paragonimiasis in an immigrant from Laos

Medical Journal of Australia, 1983
A chest X-ray film, taken in a refugee camp in Thailand six months before a 25-year-old Laotian farmer arrived in Australia, demonstrated lesions which were assumed to be tubercular. Despite antituberculous chemotherapy, the lesions continued to grow. On the man's arrival in Australia, cytological examination of bronchial washings showed the presence ...
R W, Brown, R J, Clarke, I, Denham, P W, Trembath   +3 more
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Pathogenesis of Experimental Pulmonary Paragonimiasis in Cats

American Journal of Veterinary Research, 1978
SUMMARY Specific-pathogen-free cats (n = 20) were inoculated orally with metacercariae of Paragonimus kellicotti and necropsied between 1 and 263 days later. The immature Paragonimus flukes excysted in the intestine, penetrated the intestinal wall, and migrated from the peritoneal cavity through the diaphragm to the pleural surface of lungs by ...
E A, Hoover, J P, Dubey
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Pulmonary Paragonimiasis in Childhood

JAMA, 1980
A 4-year-old Filipino girl, a recent immigrant to Hawaii, had hemoptysis, and a chest roentgenogram disclosed diffuse infiltrates of the right lung. Microscopic examination of a morning gastric aspirate showed numerous golden-brown, operculated ova, and microscopic examination of sputum and stool specimens confirmed these ova to be those of the lung ...
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Pulmonary paragonimiasis in dogs and cats: a review

Journal of Small Animal Practice, 1980
ABSTRACTPulmonary paragonimiasis is a parasitic lung disease of dogs and cats caused by the trematode Paragonimus kellicotti. The disease is encountered most frequently in the Southeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States. The radiographic appearance of pulmonary paragonimiasis is that of multiloculated cysts in dogs and interstitial nodules
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