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Human Echinostomiasis: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Host Resistance

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Echinostomes as Experimental Models for Biological Research

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Human echinostomiasis refers to infection of the human intestine by digenetic trematodes of the family Echinostomatidae which primarily infect a variety of birds and mammals other than humans. The life cycles of these worms are completed in nature without human involvement and the natural definitive hosts may also serve as reservoirs for human infection. Human echinostomiasis, caused by about 20 species belonging to eight genera (Table 1), is thus considered a zoonosis.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicine, Health Science Center, State University of New York, New York, New York, 11203, USA

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  2. Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, California, 90840, USA

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Haseeb, M.A., Eveland, L.K. (2000). Human Echinostomiasis: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Host Resistance. In: Fried, B., Graczyk, T.K. (eds) Echinostomes as Experimental Models for Biological Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9606-0_4

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