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    Paragonimus westermani (Japanese lung fluke or oriental lung fluke) is the most common species of lung fluke that infects humans, causing paragonimiasis...
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    and Rissooidea. The most prominent species of Paragonimus in human medicine is Paragonimus westermani, an infectious lung fluke originating in eastern...
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  • Paragonimus kellicotti, the North American lung fluke, is a species of parasitic trematode in the genus Paragonimus. This species of Paragonimus has an...
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    known species of Paragonimus. Species of Paragonimus are widely distributed in Asia, Africa, and North and South America. P. westermani is found in southeast...
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    paragonimiasis. Of these, the most common cause of human paragonimiasis is Paragonimus westermani, the oriental lung fluke. Lung flukes require three different hosts...
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  • Paragonimus skrjabini is classified as a species in the genus Paragonimus, which consists of many species of lung flukes that result in the food-borne...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Paragonimiasis caused by infection with lung flukes, mostly of the species Paragonimus westermani Fasciolopsiasis caused by the giant intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    gastrointestinal tract, where they shed eggs along with host feces. Paragonimus westermani, which colonizes the lungs, can also pass its eggs in saliva. These...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    (auramine-rhodamine stain, for example). The eggs of the parasitic lung fluke Paragonimus westermani are actually destroyed by the stain, which can hinder diagnosis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    Opisthorchis viverrini / O. felineus Opisthorchiasis Lung fluke Paragonimus westermani / P. kellicotti Paragonimiasis Intestinal fluke Echinostoma Echinostomiasis...
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    disease symptoms such as diarrhea. Lung flukes (in Asia mainly paragonimus westermani, in America mainly P. kellicotti) play no role in Europe. The first...
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  • lung fluke Paragonimus westermani; Paragonimus africanus; Paragonimus caliensis; Paragonimus kellicotti; Paragonimus skrjabini; Paragonimus uterobilateralis...
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    infection) Opisthorchiasis (Opisthorchis infection) Paragonimiasis (Paragonimus infection) Schistosomiasis/bilharziasis (Schistosoma infection) Moniliformis...
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