Heterophyes /Het·er·oph·y·es/ (het″er-of´e-ēz) a genus of minute trematode worms parasitic in the intestine of fish-eating mammals.
Heterophyes
Het·er·oph·y·es (h t  -r f  -z)n. A genus of trematode worms parasitic in fish-eating birds and mammals, including humans. |
Heterophyes
[het′erofi′ēz]
a genus of minute trematodes found in the middle third of the small intestine of humans and certain other mammals. Various species are found in Egypt and Turkey, throughout Asia, and in Japan and the Philippines.
Heterophyes
a genus of intestinal flukes (digenetic trematodes) of the family Heterophyidae. Other genera of this family infest birds, e.g. Cryptocotyle spp.
Heterophyes heterophyes
found in the intestine of dogs, cats, foxes and humans. Regarded as having little pathogenicity.
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