Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general term including all infections (cerebral as well as pulmonary) with lung-flukes (genus Paragonimus), such as pulmonary distomatosis or parasitic hemoptysis in man.
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- noun A food-borne
parasitic infection caused by the lung fluke, most commonly Paragonimus westermani, inhumans usually spread byingestion of raw or undercookedfreshwater crabs orcrayfishes .
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Examples
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The infection, called paragonimiasis, is caused by a parasite common in crayfish throughout North America.
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"The infection, called paragonimiasis, is very rare, so it's extremely unusual to see this many cases in one medical center in a relatively short period of time," says Washington
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Studies on the treatment of paragonimiasis were conducted in Cameroon and Ecuador.
Chapter 2 1998
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In 1990, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Division of Control of Tropical Diseases (CTD) and the pharmaceutical company Ciba-Geigy concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct additional clinical trials of triclabendazole in the treatment of fascioliasis and paragonimiasis.
Chapter 2 1998
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The clinical studies were carried out on 245 patients with fascioliasis in 6 trials, and on 261 people with paragonimiasis in 3 trials.
Chapter 2 1998
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For now, the message for physicians is to consider paragonimiasis in patients with cough, fever and eosinophilia.
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Once the diagnosis is made, paragonimiasis is easily treated with an oral drug, praziquantel, taken three times a day for only two days.
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No one knows why more cases of paragonimiasis are being diagnosed now, but doctors and researchers at Washington University are studying the parasite and hope to develop a better diagnostic test for the infection.
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With a quick search of the medical literature, Bailey learned that rare cases of North American paragonimiasis had been described in patients eating raw crayfish.
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Physicians at Washington University School of Medicine published a review article last year that includes information about the first three cases of paragonimiasis they diagnosed: Lane
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