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Overview of Trematodes and Their Life Cycles by Lewis P. Sanchez is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Trematodes, also known as flukes, are flatworm parasites that infect the liver, lungs, intestines, and blood vessels of human hosts. They have complex multi-stage life cycles involving snail and aquatic intermediate hosts. The document provides details on the morphology, life cycles, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of important trematode species that cause disease in humans, including liver flukes like Clonorchis sinensis, Fasciola hepatica, and Opisthorchis felineus; blood flukes like Schi
- Author
- Lewis P. Sanchez
- Language
- EN