Echinostoma

Echinostoma
Two specimens of Echinostoma revolutum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Echinostomatidae
Subfamily: Echinostomatinae
Genus:
Rudolphi, 1809[1]

Echinostoma is a genus of trematodes (flukes), which can infect both humans and other animals. These intestinal flukes have a three-host life cycle with snails or other aquatic organisms as intermediate hosts,[2] and a variety of animals, including humans, as their definitive hosts.

Echinostoma infect the gastrointestinal tract of humans, and can cause a disease known as echinostomiasis. The parasites are spread when humans or animals eat infected raw or undercooked food, such as bivalve molluscs or fish. [3]

  1. ^ Rudolphi K. (1809). Entoz. Hist. Nat. 2(1): 38.
  2. ^ Pantoja, Camila; Faltýnková, Anna; O’Dwyer, Katie; Jouet, Damien; Skírnisson, Karl; Kudlai, Olena (2021). "Diversity of echinostomes (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) in their snail hosts at high latitudes". Parasite. 28: 59. doi:10.1051/parasite/2021054. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 8336728.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Toledo2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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