A case of echinostomiasis in a tribal community in Bengal

Chattopadhyay, U. K.; Das, M. S.; Pal, Dilip Kumar; Das, Sukesh; Mukherjee, Anindya

doi:10.1080/00034983.1990.11812454

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“…In light to moderate infections, anemia, headache, dizziness, slight anemia stomachache, gastric pain, and loose stools have been reported (Chattopadyay et al 1990;Bundy et al 1991;Anonymous 1995a). Heavy infections are associated with eosinophilia, abdominal pain, profuse watery diarrhea, anemia, edema, and anorexia (Chattopadyay et al 1990;Anonymous 1995a). Pathologically, echinostomes damage the intestinal mucosa, causing extensive intestinal and duodenal erosions and catarrhal inflammation (Anonymous 1995a).…”

Section: Human Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clinical symptoms are related to parasite load (Bandyopathy and Nandy 1986;Chai et al 1994). In light to moderate infections, anemia, headache, dizziness, slight anemia stomachache, gastric pain, and loose stools have been reported (Chattopadyay et al 1990;Bundy et al 1991;Anonymous 1995a). Heavy infections are associated with eosinophilia, abdominal pain, profuse watery diarrhea, anemia, edema, and anorexia (Chattopadyay et al 1990;Anonymous 1995a).…”

Section: Human Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

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Food-borne intestinal trematodiases in humans

Fried

Graczyk

Tamang

2004

Parasitology Research

153

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Food-borne trematodiases still remain a public health problem world-wide, despite changes in eating habits, alterations in social and agricultural practices, health education, industrialization, environmental alteration, and broad-spectrum anthelmintics. Food-borne trematodiases usually occur focally, are still persistently endemic in some parts of the world, and are most prevalent in remote rural places among school-age children, low-wage earners, and women of child-bearing age. Intestinal fluke diseases are aggravated by socio-economic factors such as poverty, malnutrition, an explosively growing free-food market, a lack of sufficient food inspection and sanitation, other helminthiases, and declining economic conditions. Control programs implemented for food-borne zoonoses and sustained in endemic areas are not fully successful for intestinal food-borne trematodiases because of centuries-old traditions of eating raw or insufficiently cooked food, widespread zoonotic reservoirs, promiscuous defecation, and the use of "night soil" (human excrement collected from latrines) as fertilizer. This review examines food-borne intestinal trematodiases associated with species in families of the Digenea: Brachylaimidae, Diplostomidae, Echinostomatidae, Fasciolidae, Gastrodiscidae, Gymnophallidae, Heterophyidae, Lecithodendriidae, Microphallidae, Nanophyetidae, Paramphistomatidae, Plagiorchiidae, and Strigeidae. Because most of the implicated species are in the Echinostomatidae and Heterophyidae, emphasis in the review is placed on species in these families.

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Section: Human Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Human Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Food-borne intestinal trematodiases in humans

Fried

Graczyk

Tamang

2004

Parasitology Research

153

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“…34 Two echinostome species (E. malayanum and Paryphostomum sufrartyfex) were reported in humans in India. [35][36][37] ECONOMIC IMPACT Economic assessment of human echinostomiasis as well as assessment of disease morbidity and mortality are difficult because quantitative data are not available. Considering the occurrence of the food-borne trematodiases in the areas where echinostomiasis is common, it is difficult to provide an accurate economic assessment exclusive for echinostomiasis.…”

Section: Echinostomiasis In Indonesiamentioning

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Echinostomiasis: a common but forgotten food-borne disease.

Graczyk¹,

Fried²

1998

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

133

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Human echinostomiasis, endemic to southeast Asia and the Far East, is a food-borne, intestinal, zoonotic parasitosis attributed to at least 16 species of digenean trematodes transmitted by snails. Two separate life cycles of echinostomes, human and sylvatic, efficiently operate in endemic areas. Clinical symptoms of echinostomiasis include abdominal pain, violent watery diarrhea, and anorexia. The disease occurs focally and transmission is linked to fresh or brackish water habitats. Infections are associated with common sociocultural practices of eating raw or insufficiently cooked mollusks, fish, crustaceans, and amphibians, promiscuous defecation, and the use of night soil (human excrement collected from latrines) for fertilization of fish ponds. The prevalence of infection ranges from 44% in the Philippines to 5% in mainland China, and from 50% in northern Thailand to 9% in Korea. Although the patterns of other food-borne trematodiases have changed in Asia following changes in habits, cultural practices, health education, industrialization, and environmental alteration, human echinostomiasis remains a health problem. The disease is most prevalent in remote rural places among low-wage earners and in women of child bearing age. Echinostomiasis is aggravated by socioeconomic factors such as poverty, malnutrition, an explosively growing free-food market, a lack of supervised food inspection, poor or insufficient sanitation, other helminthiases, and declining economic conditions. Furthermore, World Health Organization control programs implemented for other food-borne helminthiases and sustained in endemic areas are not fully successful for echinostomiasis because these parasites display extremely broad specificity for the second intermediate host and are capable of completing the life cycle without involvement of the human host.

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“…Clinical symptoms are related to parasite load (Chai et al 1994;MacLean et al 2006). In light to moderate infections, patients have been observed to have anemia, headache, dizziness, stomach ache, gastric pain, and loose stools (Bundy et al 1991;Chattopadyay et al 1990;Field et al 2004). Other synptoms such as eosinophilia, abdominal pain, profuse watery diarrhea, anemia, edema, and anorexia are associated with heavy infections (Chattopadyay et al 1990).…”

Section: Echinostomatidaementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In light to moderate infections, patients have been observed to have anemia, headache, dizziness, stomach ache, gastric pain, and loose stools (Bundy et al 1991;Chattopadyay et al 1990;Field et al 2004). Other synptoms such as eosinophilia, abdominal pain, profuse watery diarrhea, anemia, edema, and anorexia are associated with heavy infections (Chattopadyay et al 1990). Pathologically echinostomes damage the intestinal mucosa, causing extensive intestinal and duodenal erosions and catarrhal inflammation (Fried et al 2004).…”

Section: Echinostomatidaementioning

confidence: 99%

Global status of fish-borne zoonotic trematodiasis in humans

Hùng

Madsen

Fried

2013

Acta Parasitologica

110

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Fishborne zoonotic trematodes (FZT), infecting humans and mammals worldwide, are reviewed and options for control discussed. Fifty nine species belonging to 4 families, i.e. Opisthorchiidae (12 species), Echinostomatidae (10 species), Heterophyidae (36 species) and Nanophyetidae (1 species) are listed. Some trematodes, which are highly pathogenic for humans such as Clonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis viverrini, O. felineus are discussed in detail, i.e. infection status in humans in endemic areas, clinical aspects, symptoms and pathology of disease caused by these flukes. Other liver fluke species of the Opisthorchiidae are briefly mentioned with information about their infection rate and geographical distribution. Intestinal flukes are reviewed at the family level. We also present information on the first and second intermediate hosts as well as on reservoir hosts and on habits of human eating raw or undercooked fish.

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A case of echinostomiasis in a tribal community in Bengal

Cited by 8 publications

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Food-borne intestinal trematodiases in humans

Food-borne intestinal trematodiases in humans

Echinostomiasis: a common but forgotten food-borne disease.

Global status of fish-borne zoonotic trematodiasis in humans

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