Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
- Volume 27 Issue 4
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- Pages.249-252
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- 1989
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- 2982-5164(pISSN)
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- 1738-0006(eISSN)
Experimental human infection with Fibricola cratera (Trematoda: Neodiplostomidae)
Abstract
Fibricola cratera is a strigeoid trematode indigenous to North America that, heretofore, was known only to infect wild mammals. Herein, it is reported that an experimental inoculation of a human volunteer produced a patellt infection that lasted 40 months. Symptoms of epigastric discomfort, loose stools and flatulence occurred over the first year of infection and ameliorated thereafter. Eggs per gram of stool were low (