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Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America
Fish-borne heterophyid trematodes are known to have a zoonotic potential, since at least 30 species are able to infect humans worldwide, with a global infection of around 7 million people. In this paper, a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of the South American heterophyid species is provided, including cla...
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The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32871631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2020.58.4.373 |
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author | Santos, Cláudia Portes Borges, Juliana Novo |
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description | Fish-borne heterophyid trematodes are known to have a zoonotic potential, since at least 30 species are able to infect humans worldwide, with a global infection of around 7 million people. In this paper, a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of the South American heterophyid species is provided, including classical and molecular taxonomy, parasite ecology, host-parasite interaction studies and a list of species and their hosts. There is still a lack of information on human infections in South America with undetected or unreported infections probably due to the information shortage and little attention by physicians to these small intestinal flukes. Molecular tools for specific diagnoses of South American heterophyid species are still to be defined. Additional new sequences of Pygidiopsis macrostomum, Ascocotyle pindoramensis and Ascocotyle longa from Brazil are also provided. |
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spelling | pubmed-74628002020-09-08 Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America Santos, Cláudia Portes Borges, Juliana Novo Korean J Parasitol Mini-Review Fish-borne heterophyid trematodes are known to have a zoonotic potential, since at least 30 species are able to infect humans worldwide, with a global infection of around 7 million people. In this paper, a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of the South American heterophyid species is provided, including classical and molecular taxonomy, parasite ecology, host-parasite interaction studies and a list of species and their hosts. There is still a lack of information on human infections in South America with undetected or unreported infections probably due to the information shortage and little attention by physicians to these small intestinal flukes. Molecular tools for specific diagnoses of South American heterophyid species are still to be defined. Additional new sequences of Pygidiopsis macrostomum, Ascocotyle pindoramensis and Ascocotyle longa from Brazil are also provided. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2020-08 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7462800/ /pubmed/32871631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2020.58.4.373 Text en Copyright © 2020 by The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Mini-Review Santos, Cláudia Portes Borges, Juliana Novo Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America |
title | Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America |
title_full | Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America |
title_fullStr | Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America |
title_full_unstemmed | Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America |
title_short | Current Knowledge of Small Flukes (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from South America |
title_sort | current knowledge of small flukes (digenea: heterophyidae) from south america |
topic | Mini-Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462800/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32871631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2020.58.4.373 |
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