Fact Sheets

Parasital Classification: Trematodes

Intestinal

Fasciolopsis buski (D54) Fasciolopsis buski is known as the giant intestinal fluke and is one of the largest parasites to infect human.
Fact sheet: D54, Fasciolopsiasis

Liver/Lung

Clonorchis sinensis (D45) Clonorchis sinensis is also known as the Chinese or oriental fluke disease. The worm mature in the bile ducts.
Fact sheet: D45, Clonorchiasis - Chinese or oriental liver fluke disease

Fasciola hepatica (D11) Fasciola hepatica produces liver infections with adult flukes. Cosmopolitan distribution.
Fact sheet: D11, Fascioliasis

Clonorchis sinensis (D27) Clonorchis sinensis has been reported to infect a significant portion of the population in northern Thailand and in Laos. The pathology is mainly confined to the biliary tract system.
Fact sheet: D27, Opisthorchiasis

Paragonimus spp. (D28) Paragonimus spp. is a disease of humans and carnivores found in the lung.
Fact sheet: D28, Paragonimiasis - Lung fluke disease

Blood

Schistosoma mansoni (Sm 34) Humans are the only important host of Schistosoma mansoni. Intestinal schistosomiasis. Established in the Western hemishere as a result of the slave trade.
Fact sheet: D34, Schistosomiasis - Bilharziasis - Snail fever

Schistosoma japonicum (Sj 34) Schistosoma japonicum infections are similar to that of Schistosoma mansoni.

Schistosoma haematobium
(Sh 34) Humans are the only important host of the urinary schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma haematobium.

Schistosoma mekongi (Sk 34) Schistosoma mekongi resembling to Schistosoma japonicum is responsible for the most cases reported from Indochina. Humans and dogs are the definitive hosts.