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